Boart Longyear, founded in 1890 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, provides drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling to the global mining and drilling industry.
Boart Longyear is the world's leading provider of drilling services, drilling equipment, and performance tooling for the mining and drilling industry. Founded in 1890, the year Edmund J. Longyear sank the first diamond drill hole, the company has been in operation for over 135 years. It is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, and works across Asia Pacific, North America, South America, Europe and Africa.
The business is organised into several divisions. Global Drilling Services serves a mining customer base spanning copper, gold, nickel, zinc, uranium and other metals and minerals. Global Products designs, manufactures and sells drilling equipment, performance tooling, down-hole instrumentation and parts and services, and operates six global manufacturing locations. Veracio, a separate entity, is developing technologies intended to change mining practice through a combination of science and technology.
Technical work covers drilling services, equipment manufacturing, performance tooling, down-hole instrumentation, sonic drilling technology, environmental drilling and mining technology. The company was the first American firm to use sonic equipment for environmental drilling. It describes its focus as solving the most technical drilling challenges in complex operating environments worldwide.
