Prospecting and Drilling Activities

The subject offers a total review of the fundamental exploration methods, kinds of exploratory boreholes and technical means used for the realization of exploratory activities with a view to quarry drilling machines and drilling in conditions of the quarries. The significant part of the scheme of this subject is paid to drilling making use of the down-the-hole hammers, their construction and application methods in the course of their drilling activity. The students have also possibility to get acquainted with the new unconventional drilling methods used by borehole drilling in various spheres of human activity. The significant part of lectures is paid to some important problems connected with the realization of drilling works such as borehole (well) information acquirement and its evaluation, elementary space characteristics of the borehole course, directional drilling and underground drilling.