Monthly Archives: July 2007

Working together at Barrick Goldstrike

The road to preventive maintenance.

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Off to a fine start!

New Rocket Boomer S1 D makes impressive debut in Chile

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Inside information – The driller’s best friend

Atlas Copco launches two modern tools to give drillers fast and accurate information on geology ahead and actual excavation profile.

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Round-the-clock for Ghana’s gold

Full service contract keeps ROC L8 rigs running at Iduapriem

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ROC D7 on track at Oman’s mountain challenge

In two major road construction projects in the Sultanate of Oman, the contractor CCC (Consolidated Contractors Co Oman LLC) has chosen six Atlas Copco ROC D7 drill rigs to cut through rocky hill barriers under tough conditions. The 35 km-long […]

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Historic foundations

When Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania, USA, needed to build an extension, it was faced with a problem; there was no room left on the campus to build on. M&C visited the site to find out how they resolved the problem.

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Close co-operation forges Norwegian links

Contractors Skanska and NCC are successfully excavating tunnels at Norwegian west coast.

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Searching for the optimum in the land of the midnight sun

For more than 40 years, the miners of LKAB in the far north of Sweden have been working to get as close as possible to the optimum underground mining technique. In what are the world’s largest underground iron ore operations, many milestones have been reached and passed. Now another landmark is on the horizon as the mines take new steps to go deeper and expand.

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