Surrey, British Columbia-based Sonic Drill Corp has marked a significant milestone with the production of its 100th 50K Sonicor sonic drill head, which is widely used in the mineral exploration sector. “When you start out developing a new technology, you wonder if you’ll ever get to a milestone like this one,” states President, Roy Roussy. “I’m glad I was able to see this happen during my lifetime because many developers and inventors don’t get that opportunity.” Roussy is the patent-holder of the original award-winning technology, and has made the commercialisation of sonic drill rigs his life’s work for more than 30 years. Roussy adds: “While it’s great to know that the other 99 drill heads are scattered around the world, working on a variety of different projects, the 100th head is going to stay right here in Canada and be used for our contracting division, Sonic Drilling Ltd.”

Roussy said Sonic Drill’s full-power Sonicor 50K sonic drill head offers “a clean, compact design that is fully re-buildable for infinite life. For easy maintenance, no external grease is required and it can function as a standard air or mud rotary drill head as well. A top swivel model is available that operates completely dry, eliminating the risk of contaminating the drilling fluid for environmentally sensitive applications and another model is greased for normal applications.” The 50K Sonicor head is one of a series of models manufactured by the company. “We have many smaller compact heads operating in the field along with horizontal construction versions that are specially designed for horizontal drilling and even inverted angles.  The 100 Sonicor 50Ks have all come from our Surrey facility while the balance of smaller compact and construction drill heads have been sold in collaboration with our partner company, Toa-Tone Boring, in Japan,” noted Roussy.