JSE-listed drilling technology company Master Drilling Group has broken the world record for depth of a hole drilled after the successful completion of the pilot hole – at 1 382 m, for raise-boring at platinum group metals miner Northam Platinum’s Zondereinde mine in Limpopo.
Drilling of the pilot hole at Number 3 shaft – a new vertical shaft at the Western extension section of Zondereinde – commenced on September 25, 2019, and the receiving chamber underground was reached on July 18.