Boart Longyear
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| Traded as | (ASX: BLY) |
| Industry | Mining services and products |
| Founded | 1888 |
| Founder | Edmund J. Longyear |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| Products | Drilling equipment and performance tooling |
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Number of employees
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8,000 (2013) |
| Website | www |
Boart Longyear is a global mineral exploration company founded in 1888. It is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Regional offices and operations are located in the Asia-Pacific region, North and South America, Europe, and Africa. The company provides mineral exploration services and drilling products for the global mining industry and also has a presence in drilling water exploration, environmental sampling, energy, and oil sands exploration. As of 2013, it employed more than 8,000 people.
In 1888, Edmund J. Longyear, a mining engineer from the first graduating class at the Michigan Mining School, drilled the first diamond core hole in the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota. Shortly afterward, he formed a contract diamond drilling company to serve the rapidly growing U.S. iron ore mining and steel industry. In 1903, Longyear and John E. Hodge formed a partnership called Longyear and Hodge to expand their business, which included contract drilling, shaft-sinking, mineral ventures, and related consulting work. In 1911, the Longyear and Hodge partnership merged with Longyear’s separate contract drilling company to E.J. Longyear ("Longyear") Company. The Company’s first price list in 1912 featured 19 drill models with drilling capabilities between 750 – 5,000 feet. Those drills were powered mainly by steam engines, which later were replaced by internal combustion engines developed in the 1920s. The Company expanded rapidly in the U.S. and overseas. From 1912 to 1916, the company drilled for copper in Cuba, the Company's first international project. In 1914, Longyear began setting up the first of six diamond core rigs for Phelps Dodge Corporation to explore for copper in Arizona. In 1919, the Company began a 15-month drilling project in Yunnan Province, China.
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