boartlongyear.com

Boart Longyear is a provider of drilling services, drilling equipment, and performance tooling for the mining and drilling industry. Founded in 1890, the year Edmund J. Longyear sank the first diamond drill hole, the company has operated for over 135 years and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its activities span North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific.

The business is organised around two main divisions. Global Drilling Services serves a mining customer base across commodities including copper, gold, nickel, zinc and uranium. Global Products designs, manufactures and sells drilling equipment, performance tooling, down-hole instrumentation, and parts and services, from six global manufacturing locations. A third entity, Veracio, is dedicated to developing technologies intended to change the way the world mines through a combination of science and technology.

Technical work covers drilling technology, sonic drilling equipment, down-hole instrumentation, performance tooling and environmental drilling; the company was the first U.S. firm to use sonic equipment for environmental drilling. Much of the work takes place in complex operating environments and involves solving technical drilling challenges, with operations, logistics and support functions spread across multiple continents.