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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.

Geotechnical drilling capabilities include hollow stem auger, solid stem, ODEX/Symmetrix, casing advancer, DTH, soil sampling, monitoring wells, and instrumentation.

Specialty drilling on and inside dams, including concrete and rock coring, pressure grouting, stress measurements, monitoring wells, and instrumentation.

DA Smith offers extensive experience drilling in transportation, mining, and water tunnels for geotechnical characterization during construction to post-constructing investigations.

DA Smith conducts turnkey surface and underground uranium and vanadium exploration diamond core drilling in the western U.S.

DA Smith procures and installs a wide range of instruments to support geomechanical projects, including MPBXs, BPCs, VW instruments, and dataloggers.

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.

DA Smith conducts 2D and 3D in situ stress measurements in rock and concrete via the USBM BDG or CSIRO hollow inclusion cell methods.