Support Activities for Mining

     Industries in the Support Activities for Mining Sub-Section group establishments primarily providing support services, on a contract or fee basis, required for the mining and quarrying of minerals and for the extraction of oil and gas. Establishments performing exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping) for minerals, on a contract or fee basis, are included in this Sub-Section. Exploration includes traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites.
     The activities performed on a contract or fee basis by establishments in the Support Activities for Mining Sub-Section are also often performed in-house by mining operators. These activities include: taking core samples, making geological observations at prospective sites, excavating slush pits and cellars, and such oil and gas operations as spudding in, drilling in, redrilling, directional drilling, well surveying; running, cutting, and pulling casings, tubes and rods; cementing wells, shooting wells; perforating well casings; acidizing and chemically treating wells; and cleaning out, bailing, and swabbing wells.

Support Activities for Mining
     This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support services, on a contract or fee basis, required for the mining and quarrying of minerals and for the extraction of oil and gas. Drilling, taking core samples, and making geological observations at prospective sites (except geophysical surveying and mapping) for minerals, on a contract or fee basis, is included in this industry.

Drilling Oil and Gas Wells

     This  industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in drilling oil and gas wells for others on a contract or fee basis. This industry includes contractors that specialize in spudding in, drilling in, redrilling, and directional drilling.

Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations

     This  industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing support activities on a contract or fee basis for oil and gas operations (except site preparation and related construction activities). Services included are exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping); excavating slush pits and cellars, well surveying; running, cutting, and pulling casings, tubes, and rods; cementing wells, shooting wells; perforating well casings; acidizing and chemically treating wells; and cleaning out, bailing, and swabbing wells.

Support Activities for Coal Mining
     This  industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support activities for coal mining (except site preparation and related construction activities) on a contract or fee basis. Exploration for coal is included in this industry. Exploration includes traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites.

Support Activities for Metal Mining
     This  industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support activities (except site preparation and related construction activities) on a contract or fee basis for the mining and quarrying of metallic minerals and for the extraction of metal ores. Exploration for minerals is included in this industry. Exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping services) includes traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites.

Support Activities for Nonmetallic Minerals (except Fuels) Mining
     This  industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support activities, on a fee or contract basis, for the mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuel) and for the extraction of nonmetallic minerals (except site preparation and related construction activities). Exploration for minerals is included in this industry. Exploration (except geophysical surveying and mapping services) includes traditional prospecting methods, such as taking core samples and making geological observations at prospective sites.

• Aztec Group of Companies - Drilling contractors, Thailand. Specializing in deep water wells, onshore oilfield, geotechnical, coring, geophysical logging, and mineral exploration.
• Bevro - Offers solutions for boring activities: providing horizontal controlled bore holes, compression bore holes, pneumatic piercing, ground and cable work.
• Bostech Drilling - Grade control and exploration geochemical drilling using R.A.B aircore or small diameter reverse circulation techniques.
• Bradley and Sons - Operates in two basic areas, domestic wells and commercial and environmental drilling and testing. Based in central California .
• Bradley Bros. - International drilling company specializes in core drilling and reverse circulation for mining and exploration industries.
• Carnon Contracting - A mining, tunnelling, and specialist drilling company in Cornwall, U.K.
• Connelly & Associates - Licensed well drillers perform test borings, rock coring, install monitoring wells. Truck and all terrain vehicle drills.
• Cryotech Industries Pty Ltd - Pipefreezing and pipe repair services for mining and industrial applications in Australia and the Pacific. Also shrinkfitting and medical liquid nitrogen supplies.
• EESI - Seismic Permit Agents - Suppliers of temporary geophysical personnel.
• FlowTex France - Contracting in horizontal drilling. France.
• Foraco - Specialists in water bore-hole drilling for drinking water supplies, irrigation water or industrial water. From preliminary exploration to pre-production and reserve geometry determination.
• Hammond and Company - Specialists in deep hole drilling. Gun drills, gun reamers, speedfeed, ventec, speedbit and proten drills.
• Iranian Mining & Mineral Processing, IMMP.ORG :: Where Specialists Refer - A comprehensive site for researchers, students in mining, mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, environmental, geology and earth sciences. All around mining & mineral processing in I.R.IRAN ; articles , links , photo galleries , refrences , and more...
• Land-drill Geotechnics - Provides environmental, hydrogeological, and geological land-drilling, as well as geotechnical laboratory services and consulting.
• New England Boring Contractors - Test boring, soil sampling, rock coring, well monitoring, rock pressure testing and drilling since 1977.
• Norex Drilling International - Contract drilling firm, performing surface as well as underground wireline core drilling.
• Northstar Environmental Services - Air, mud rotory, hollow stem probe and direct-push drilling company in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
• Pacific Drilling Company - Southern California limited access geotechnical drilling and sampling. Provides geotechnical and environmental engineering services, limited access drilling services.
• Rodren Drilling - Contract diamond drilling and mineral exploration, core sampling, and concrete cutting in Canada.
• Stewart Brothers Drilling - Mud-rotary exploration, air-rotary casing hammer drilling and hollow stem auger drilling company in Milan, New Mexico.