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Mincon Shannon Plant Expands

Mincon Shannon Plant Expands

Mincon is involved in the design and manufacture of rock drilling equipment for almost 40 years.  The company’s range of DTH hammers and bits is supplied into many different drilling applications. The increased scope of the Mincon range of products and the market demand for the company’s range of products has generated significant production challenges which

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Mincon Drilling Consumables

Mincon Drilling Consumables

The following appeared in an article in the April Edition of Mining Magazine which looked at various drilling consumables manufacturers and got their feedback on how the current economic climate and volatile commodity prices are affecting their business. Mincon manufactures ranges of standard DTH and RC hammers and bits for the global mining industry. The standard

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Mincon Hammer Drills 100,000 Metres

Mincon Hammer Drills 100,000 Metres

A Mincon 4HDS DTH hammer has achieved a service life of almost 100,000 metres. Most hammers will achieve a life expectancy of between 20,000 and 40,000 metres, dependent upon ground conditions and good drilling and maintenance practices. The Mincon hammer supplied and serviced by Rock Drill Engineering, and used by EPC UK Blasting Services, managed a total

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Mincon in the USA

Mincon in the USA

The following article featured in GeoDrilling International magazine in March 2013: Mincon a global manufacturer of premium quality drilling tools has had a strong focus on the market in the USA since the company’s founding in the late 1970’s. The USA has remained a key part of the Mincon group strategy for growth with its strong and

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Mincon Hammer Used In Large Missouri Horizontal Directional Drilling Project

Mincon Hammer Used In Large Missouri Horizontal Directional Drilling Project

At present a large horizontal directional drilling and trenching project is taking place that extends over three states and encompasses over thirty plus miles of new and replacement natural gas infrastructure. The project will provide gas service to thousands of residents and also ensures continued work for hundreds over the next year or so. The

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Mincon Joint Venture Delivers Custom Mining Truck

Mincon Joint Venture Delivers Custom Mining Truck

Mincon Southern Africa recently worked in conjunction with truck manufacturer Western Star Trucks to deliver a 35 tonne custom built custom-built 4900 series Western Star truck to Booysen Bore Drilling Company. The truck will be used at the JSE-listed Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen mine where it will be used for drilling holes for mine dewatering.   The truck

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The Importance of Hammer Lubrication

The Importance of Hammer Lubrication

I know most of you out there are professional drillers, so please bear with me whilst we pass on a basic, but most important bit of advice to our new members. A DTH Hammer has finely engineered internal components, much the same as a car engine, demanding the same protection. Without it things will go

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Don’t Get Screwed Up – Tips for Opening your DTH Hammer

Don't Get Screwed Up - Tips for Opening your DTH Hammer

How many times have we come to change the bit or strip the Hammer only to find that it cannot be dismantled without extreme difficulty and much effort. Hammer manufacturers are sometimes at a loss what to do when it comes to thread design. If the threads are of one design they may be hard to

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Quality, Performance and Customer Service

Quality, Performance and Customer Service

Mincon has an established track record of delivering, world wide, high quality and superior performance tools to the Rock Drilling Industry. Maximum customer service and satisfaction is its primary focus and has a team of highly motivated personnel to achieve this. In 1998 the Company embarked upon an ambitious plan to develop a new range of

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Sticky Ground - Tips for drilling in loose ground conditions

Drilling in bad ground is not a driller’s most favourite pastime as he runs the risk of loosing his DTH tooling. Bad ground may be made up of broken or fissured rock, clays, sands or damp heavy conditions where dust can cling to the wall of the hole. Naturally it is important to keep the

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“Keep it Clean” – Tips for maintaining your DTH Hammer

Keep it Clean - Tips for maintaining your DTH Hammer

A basic, but important, tip is to “Keep it Clean”. Even the smallest foreign particle can cause untold damage to the Hammer. “World Class” DTH Tools need tight tolerances between the piston and the internal running surfaces for speed and efficiency. Dirt or other foreign bodies passing through can become trapped between the outer wall of

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