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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
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 [Read More]
“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 [Read More]