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Epiroc evolved from the global split in January 2018 of Atlas Copco into two separate companies and comprises the Mining & Rock Excavation Technique Business Area and Construction Tools division to focus on the mining and civil engineering sectors. The industrial businesses remain with Atlas Copco. Epiroc Business Line Manager, Surface & Exploration Drilling (SED), Hedley Birnie, explains how the business partnership with Booysen Bore started: “In 1999, SED Area Sales Manager for Atlas Copco, Cobus Engelbrecht, conducted the very first trial with a ROC L8 MK I test machine for Booysen Bore at Beeshoek Mine.

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Fibre-optic cables can be used to detect earthquakes and other ground movements. The data cables can also pick up seismic signals from hammer shots, passing cars or wave movements in the ocean. This is the result of a study appearing in the journal Nature Communications on July 3 2018. The main authors are Philippe Jousset and Thomas Reinsch from GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. They carried out the investigation together with colleagues from Island, UK, Berlin, Germany, and Potsdam, Germany.

Both the boreholes at his 350-acre Hendy farm ran down to a trickle in mid June. For five weeks Aled and son Osian have been making round trips to a nearby river with a tanker lent by a local dealership.

“No miner is left in a mine, and Julen is now considered a miner,” said Juan Lopez Escobar, one of the engineers in charge of the rescue operation.

Alcohol sale has been completely stopped in the state of Bihar since 2016 whereas Kerala, a state which records annual liquor sales of over Rs 12000 crore, is also considering putting a state ban on alcohol sale by 2025.

The base set has 500 cards, which is 60 more than 2014. A total of 240 veterans are joined by 99 rookies. Other subsets include All-Pro and Fantasy Studs. Topp 60 ranks the best players in the league. The 2015 Topps Football set also has cards for award winners, teams, the Super Bowl and a group shot from the Rookie Premiere. Topping things off are 40 Rookie Variations and 60 Veteran Variations that use different photos.

But Vanessa wears many hats along with her safety vest as she’s the CEO of ROC Equipment. Drilling is in her blood, and she gained her skills the old-fashioned way, watching and learning at her family’s drilling contracting company, Becho Inc. Vanessa also has a B.A. in humanities and business and an MBA.

The only telltale indication of what the engine actually is comes from the characteristic “hump” of the intake manifold, barely visible above the tangle of tubing.

After stopping at an oil well that had defied conventional drills, the men ordered field hands away and secretly brought out the bit and attached it to the pipe stem of the rotary rig. For the next 11 hours, the bit bored through 14 feet of solid rock, “a feat so miraculous for the time that drillers dubbed the mysterious device the “rock eater.”

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