Drilling is an essential part of the mineral exploration business for resource evaluation. Fulfilling statutory norms to comply with standards require drilling evaluation. Capstone undertook the Diamond Core Drilling program in a Mining Lease area captive with a cement production unit. A total of 1500 m of drilling planned across 50 drill holes with an average vertical depth of 30 m was executed.

Capstone undertook the operation using 02 hydrostatic diamond core drilling equipment in the project. The project also involved logging of recovered core, core splitting & sampling. An average of +95 % recovery could be achieved in the program. With this intervention the client could estimate the resources of Grey massive limestone present in the deposit with an average of about 20 m thickness. Core loss was mainly attributed to presence of fractures in a few of these drill holes.