Drill rig shortage? What drill rig shortage? For the folks overseeing exploration in and around Oxianas Sepon copper-gold mine in Laos who will have 24 drill rigs at their disposal before the year is out the problems of insufficient rig availability being felt elsewhere in the mining industry are a world away. Report by Paul Garvey, who visited the project.
Oxiana’s ability to secure two dozen drill rigs in a country with absolutely no previous mining history and only one other mine stems from the confluence of the two factors all drill rig operators
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