NEWS

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 Blue Max Drilling Inc. was chosen as one of the winners of the BC Environmental Industry Association (BCEIA) "Members at Work" contest.  The selected photo was us drilling in the Coastal Mountains for the Brucejack Mine Transmission Line Project in 2016.   

You heard it right.  A sonic rig that is heli-portable.  And not just helicopter portable with a large chopper, we have a custom-designed drill rig that can be carried by an A Star helicopter with less than 1,900 lb lifts!  Blue Max is a little late bringing this unit to our website, seeing that we had the drill rig since the summer of 2016!  This rig has been field tested on a rather large geotechincal drilling project in 2016, working away pulling double-duty: sonic drilling and HQ coring with the same machine..  We are able to perform both sonic and diamond drilling on the same drill, maximizing the project budget for all overburden (sonic) and bedrock (diamond drilling) drilling needs.  

Since 2014, Blue Max has continued to support the scientists and engineers of tomorrow!  As part of the University of British Columbia (UBC) School or Earth and Ocean Sciences, Blue Max commonly donates crews and rigs to UBC's field school class (EOSC 428/532).  This class, Field Techniques in Groundwater Hydrology, is attended by more than 60 students from UBC, SFU, UBCO and University of Calgary.   Blue Max is proud to support this great class, the professors, and the industry leading scientists of tomorrow!   Congrats to all the graduates of geology, hydrogeology and civil engineering majors involved in this class 

Blue Max has become a COR Certified company (Large COR)!  This certification is a big step in our company, to be able to have a certified safety program that will only help to train and arm our employees with the information they need to go home safely every night.