Surface and underground drilling including coring, geotechnical, environmental, dams, tunnels, and scientific projects
  • Core Drilling
    Surface and underground triple tube/split tube wireline, conventional, directional, and helicopter coring for mineral and geologic exploration, mining, geotechnical studies, remediation projects, and scientific experiments and testing.
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  • Geotechnical Drilling
    Geotechnical drilling capabilities include hollow stem auger, solid stem, ODEX/Symmetrix, casing advancer, DTH, soil sampling, monitoring wells, and instrumentation.
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  • Boundary Dam, Washington
    Specialty drilling on and inside dams, including concrete and rock coring, pressure grouting, stress measurements, monitoring wells, and instrumentation.
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  • Liner and rock mass coring at the BART Caldecott train tunnel, Oakland, California
    DA Smith offers extensive experience drilling in transportation, mining, and water tunnels for geotechnical characterization during construction to post-constructing investigations.
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  • Roof sag instrumentation, San Juan Coal Mine, BHP, Farmington, New Mexico
    DA Smith procures and installs a wide range of instruments to support geomechanical projects, including MPBXs, BPCs, VW instruments, and dataloggers.
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  • Water Hammer
    DA Smith performs down-the-hole (DTH) water hammer drilling in rock and concrete where high-productivity drilling and high-tolerance holes are required, and at sensitive sites where air hammer drilling is not allowed.
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