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Trimble DPS900 Drilling and Piling System Enables Increased Quality and Productivity While Helping Promote Safer Operations SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) today introduced the Trimble(®) DPS900 Drilling and Piling System, a new machine control solution for drilling and piling contractors. Part of the Trimble Connected Site(®) portfolio, the new DPS900 system can enable contractors to perform drilling and piling operations quickly, safely and...

The article describes new techniques that combine laser fabrication with conductive nanoparticle materials, allowing further miniaturization of electronic devices among other benefits. (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Micro-hole drilling expert Potomac Photonics was recently featured in PCB Magazine's May issue that was centered on small hole formation and processing. Potomac's article Looking Outside the Hole: the Evolution of Via Drilling explained a new laser fabrication process developed...

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ulterra today announced the introduction of CounterForce, a breakthrough in PDC bit design technology that utilizes a unique cutter configuration that lowers bit torque and vibration, thus creating more efficient failure of rock. Unlike traditional PDC bits, the cutters of this patent-pending, step-change advancement in new PDC technology work together to lower lateral vibration and increase crack propagation. The CounterForce cutting...

VANCOUVER, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Gold Mountain Mining Corporation (TSX-V:GUM) (the "Company" or  "Gold Mountain") is pleased to announce final assay results from the Company's 2012 exploration program at its 100% owned Elk Gold project near Merritt, BC. These latest results continue to demonstrate the significant additional gold potential of several regional targets on the property, outside of the historic pit area which hosts the previously reported resource of 301,000...

SALT LAKE CITY, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Boart Longyear (www.BoartLongyear.com | ASX: BLY), the world's leading integrated exploration drilling services, equipment and performance tooling provider, has released their next generation surface exploration drill rig, the LF(TM)120A. The semi-automated drill rig features a hands-free operating system and self-monitoring technology that provides increased safety and gains in overall productivity. "The LF120A was designed for drilling...

VANCOUVER, Feb. 6, 2013 /CNW/ - Eco Oro Minerals Corp. ("Eco Oro" or the "Company") (TSX: EOM) reports that results from the infill drilling program completed to September 2012 continue to outline higher grade gold mineralization favourable to underground mining at its multi-million ounce Angostura gold-silver deposit in northeastern Colombia. Results from this drill program will be used for an updated resource, which is estimated to be completed in Q1 2013. Fifty six additional...

VANCOUVER, Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Calico Resources Corp. (TSX-V: CKB) (the "Company" or "Calico") is pleased to report the following drill results on its Grassy Mountain Project located in southeast Oregon. This hole, CAL 12R17 successfully tested the continuity of mineralization of the grade/geologic model within the higher-grade "boiling horizon" on the western flank of the deposit. The results also expanded the "mineralized envelope" further to the west than previously...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- An Ulterra 8 3/4-in. U513S PDC bit drilled a high-angle build section in an Eagle Ford well in 6.5 hr., beating the best offset rate of penetration (ROP) by 16.4%, according to the company. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110906/DA62410LOGO ) The shale-specific PDC bit drilled the 15 degree /100'- curve section with a 30 degree change in azimuth in a Dimmit County oil well, 129 mi. southeast of San Antonio. Typically,...

[Watch Video: Tractor Train From Union Glacier To Lake Ellsworth] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Update (Dec. 22, 2012) A long-awaited project to drill through Antarctica’s ice sheet to a deep subglacial lake to look for life has been on hold for the past week due to a malfunction in the drill’s boiler system. The team heading the $12 million operation could only sit patiently in the subzero temperatures of the southern continent as they waited for a...

VANCOUVER, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Fire River Gold Corp. (TSXV: FAU), (OTCQX: FVGCF), (FSE: FWR) (the "Company", "Fire River") is pleased to announce results from its 2012 surface diamond drilling program (Figure 1) at its wholly owned Nixon Fork Gold Project in Alaska.  Fire River completed 38 surface diamond drill holes totalling 2976 metres targeting resource expansion at the Mystery Mine. Twenty of 38 drill holes intercepted significant gold, silver and copper...