Raisebore Coal

Raisebore has extensive experience in coal with work completed in the New South Wales and Queensland coalfields. Raisebore is the only specialist raiseboring contractor in Australia that operates and maintains flame-proof equipment for uses in underground seam to seam drilling. We can also offer five machines capable of drilling conventional slot and egress raises, with two of these machines capable of completing up holes and/or down reamed holes, removing the requirement to access both levels.

Our extensive raiseboring fleet ensures that we offer a complete range of equipment to ream holes from 0.6 metres to 5.5 metres in diameter. Currently our equipment level allows Raisebore to have at least two machines with the capacity to ream raises up to 5.5 metres which ensures an emergency back up is available.

The remainder of our fleet is utilised to complete raises from 1.8 metres up to 3.8 metres in diameter to depths greater than 600 metres.

With a choice of two machines, Raisebore has the capability to complete up reamed and down reamed shafts removing the requirement to access both levels. Conventional drilling and reaming services are also available.

We can also supply a real time vacuum sampling and monitoring system to ensure the atmosphere at the reamer head is within specified levels. A Trigger Action Response Plan (TARP) has been developed for the reaming application to remove the potential for frictional ignition in the shaft from rotary cutting. We maintain vacuum pumping equipment for surface use and the equipment can be easily converted to monitor samples taken utilising a venturi system supplied by our Clients.

We have had extensive experience in coal with work completed at Wyee Colliery, Cordeaux Colliery, Tower Colliery, Austar Colliery, Newpac Colliery, Nardell Colliery and Abel Colliery in New South Wales. We have also completed shafts in the Bowen Basin at Southern Colliery, Central Colliery/German Creek, and Grasstree Colliery in Queensland, Australia.

Raisebore has shown a consistent history of continuously innovating and rising to meet and surpass the highest requirements and standards in the coal mining industry.

To discuss your raiseboring requirements in detail, please contact the team at Raisebore today.