Oil Sands

Clients

• Syncrude
• Suncor
• Imperial Oil / Exxon
• CNRL
• PetroChina

Work

Within the past 5 years, Cross Borders has drilled more than 1500 core holes combined between each of our clients in the oil sands. Additionally, we also routinely complete more than $2,000,000 worth of geotechnical and environmental instrumentation drilling each year throughout the oil sands in tailing management areas, or on mine benches / dykes. These include, Slope Inclinometers, Vibrating Wire Piezometers, Standpipe Piezometers, and Depressurization wells

Rig Utilization

Mud Rotary, Track Mounted and Truck Mounted Sonic, Dual Rotary, Track Mounted and Truck Mounted Auger

Coal

Client

• Westmoreland Coal
• Prairie Mines and Royalty

Work

For the past seven years, Cross Borders has built an exceptional relationship with Westmoreland Coal, successfully completing several hundred exploration core holes per year.

Rig Utilization

Mud Rotary

Potash

Client

• Nutrien
• Mosaic
• Snc Lavalin
• BHP
• Western Potash
• Golder Associates
• K+S
• Yancoal
• Clifton Associates

Work

Cross Borders has built a reputation completing geotechnical and environmental drilling scopes in the Saskatchewan potash mines. Whether in the tailings management area, on the pile, we have the experience and equipment required to drill and complete scopes with mud rotary, air rotary, sonic, solid stem, hollow stem auger, and dual rotary

Uranium

Client

• Fission
• Cameco
• Nexgen

Work

Geotechnical, Environmental, Hydrogeological drilling – completing diversified scopes to include SPTs, nilcon vane testing, CPT, SCPTu, standpipe piezometer installations, and 200 m dewatering wells on frozen lake ice.

Rig Utilization

Sonic and Mud Rotary

Gold

Client

• Alamos Gold
• Barrick Gold
• Kinross

Work

Geotechnical instrumentation drilling that includes drilling more than 350 Slope inclinometer and Vibrating wire piezometer installations on dykes, dams, and roads within the active mining areas.

Rig Utilization

Dual Rotary, Sonic, Auger

Diamond

Client

• Rio Tinto

Work

Successfully completed 9 dewatering wells with depths ranging from 80 m to 250 m. Sonic was utilized for shallower wells and mud rotary for deeper wells.

Rig Utilization

Sonic, Mud Rotary