shaft drilling

shaft drilling

[′shaft ‚dril·iŋ]
(mining engineering)
The drilling of small shafts up to about 5 feet (1.5 meters) in diameter with the shot drill.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Handheld drilling has to be used in the shaft deepening, from 750 m below surface to a depth of 1,460 m, as the shaft is too small to accommodate a shaft drilling jumbo.
Shaft drilling was addressed in detail in both World Tunnelling (February 1990) and Mining Magazine (March 1990).
Shaft drilling excavates a shaft from the collar downwards using a large rig to drill one or more passes: debris removal is normally by flushing with reverse circulation.
In contrast with shaft drilling, which has been practised for well over a century, the first shaft boring machine was produced in 1970.
Limitations are similar in nature to those for shaft drilling, that is to say the strength of the drill string and the directional accuracy of drilling.