Talk:Exploration diamond drilling

Context problems
note: 'Q' is a registered trademark of Boart Longyear. Coring is used for exploration of minerals, globally, from surface and underground. 174.52.144.77 (talk) 13:38, 4 July 2010 (UTC) It isn't made clear what this might be used for. Is it a search for diamonds? In the San Andreas Fault?

It might involve the article's name. It this generally recognized as a specific terminology for a specific kind of drilling?

Do "diamonds" really make any difference in the general type of drilling discussed here? That is part of the naming and the context problems.

Gene Nygaard 15:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

This is a name for the type of drilling, not searching for diamonds. The drill bits use artifical diamonds on them due to their harness (hardess of 10 out of scale of Mohs scale of hardness 1-10).

There are different types of drill bits for different purposes. Some just to drill water bore holes, some for drilling rock chip samples (they get ejected out by pumping water through).

The coring discussed here is for the geologist to look at the underlying rock in a good state. So they can check quality etc. For example I use it in the coal mines on eploration sites. Like taking a plug out of a big cheese!

Kevb38 (talk) 05:19, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

The merge has been made, there was not much in the diamond drilling article, except the core sizes. I had originally called it 'exploration' to differentiate from construction drilling, production oil well drilling, etc. We probably need a more comprehensive article, of which this is a subset. Zeizmic (talk) 22:38, 12 February 2009 (UTC)