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A sound understanding of borehole design and construction and the hydrogeology of the site, followed by routine monitoring and maintenance, is usually all that is required to ensure continued service and sustained performance.

Since the outer tubes are smooth and flush along the entire length of the drillstring, it is almost impossible for jamming to occur. Practical experience with coprod has been exceptionally good. The method gives good overall economy, particularly in large-scale production drilling and drilling in broken rock or other demanding rock conditions.

- Gold sales from continuing operations increased mainly due to the commissioning of Hounde in Q4-2017, which had its first full-year of production in 2018.

The stimulation stage will take about one month to complete, and will be followed by an analysis of water flows in the bedrock. This analysis stage could take up to nine  months, with further development of drilling technology occurring during the pause in drilling operations. The drilling rig will be dismantled and removed from the site when this intermission begins.

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Without carrying out routine maintenance, there is no way of knowing when a borehole could fail, and fail they do, sometimes overnight, and at other times more gradually. The failure of a pump is a common problem which will result in a temporary loss of supply which although inconvenient, can usually be replaced quickly. Borehole pumps have a life expectancy in the region of ten years.

Woskov observes yet another advantage: “Our beams don’t need to be round. Forces underground are anisotropic — not symmetrical. That is one reason holes collapse. But we can shape our beam to respond to local pressures. You can create an elliptical hole with the major axis corresponding to the anisotropy of the forces, essentially recovering the strength of a round hole in a symmetrical force field.”

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When the three-foot rod is completely submerged in the dirt, operators disconnect the rod, spin the bar back up and connect another segment onto the drill.

"Before I had the dream about the Village Drill, I had never seen a well drilled before," Renouard said. "It was certainly something worth fighting for."