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Our Mission

Our purpose is to maximise the innovation, safety and productivity of our clients to reach targets on time, every time. We provide the drilling solutions the mining industry needs.

Our Story

Initially founded as an underground long-hole production drilling business, Swick Mining noticed the need for an underground mobile diamond drill rig.

From this, a rig was born: the Swick Gen I. It was founded on “Excellence unearthed”, the idea that the mining industry needed a powerful mobile rig combined with skilled underground drillers to support their safety and productivity. Today, Swick Mining continues to support mining operations around the world.

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PURPOSE
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OUR LEADERSHIP
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Our History

Since beginning operations in 1997, Swick Mining Services has quickly grown to become one of the largest globally recognised mineral drilling contractors.

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1997

Swick Mining Services was initially founded as an underground long-hole production drilling business.

 
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2004

Our dedicated team successfully builds its first underground mobile diamond drill rig.
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2006

Swick is listed on the ASX.ing business.

 
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2009

Underground diamond coring operations commence in North America.
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2012

Underground diamond coring operations begin in Portugal.
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2018

Swick is awarded 2018 Mining Contractor of the Year by Australia’s Mining Monthly. Swick celebrates 10 million metres of diamond core drilled.
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2019

Swick starts a new deep hole drilling division called DeepEX.
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2021

Swick starts Swick Engineering.
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2022

Swick is acquired by DDH1 Limited.

 
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2023

Swick operate globally, with 76 rigs, and counting.

Key Drilling Milestones

Australia

Congratulations to our DeepEX crew at Olympic Dam who successfully drilled the deepest underground hole on site. With 4.8km worth of pipe in the hole on completion, that is one serious rod pull.

Australia

Congratulations to our DeepeEX team out at Leinster for recently drilling a hole 1337.9m deep! Our drillers successfully completed the hole marking another spot in the record books for DeepEX. We are very proud of the team that managed to complete this safely and without incident. We cannot wait to see what the next milestone will be

Australia

Monday 17th July 2023 marked 2.5 million metres of core drilled by Swick at Jundee under NST ownership. We celebrate this milestone alongside Northern Star Resources and look forward to our 9 year partnership continuing to grow as we expand to 14 operating drill rigs on site. We thank all past and present employees who have contributed to this incredible achievement.

Australia

2 Million in the Top End! The first milestone for 2024 has been achieved with 2 million metres of core being drilled at one of our remote sites in the Northern Territory. Thank you to all past and present staff who have contributed to this achievement.

Europe

Bosnia Drilling Commences! On Monday, 6th May, Swick’s Europe division commenced drilling in Bosnia. With one skid-based rig in operation just outside the capital of Sarajevo, our team have done an incredible job mobilising to a new country as well as adapting to a new language and culture. This is an exciting venture for Swick, and we look forward to building a strong relationship with our client.

Australia

DeepEX Milestone! Congratulations to Swick’s DeepEX Team and the Northern Star Resources Team at Jundee for working together to successfully drill the longest underground hole onsite. At 1895.4m this hole is the first to be completed in a comprehensive drill program that will require the expertise of the DeepEX Team to execute. Well done to all involved!

Australia

June 2024 represents 20 Years since Swick Mining Services commenced underground diamond drilling with its first mobile drill rig at Beta Hunt Nickel mine in Kambalda, Western Australia in June 2004.

Australia

July 2024 marks the milestone of over 100,000m of core drilled by the Swick crews onsite at Abra. Swick first commenced onsite at Abra in 2022 drilling the first portal hole. Congratulations to the Swick Team and Abra Mining on this exciting achievement. We look forward to the many more metres ahead.

Australia

1000m HQ successfully completed at Leinster for our DeepEX Team. This is an excellent achievement for DeepEX who always strive to successfully drill deeper holes than they have in their previous scope of work.

Australia

Celebrating 15 Years of excellence onsite at Broken Hill. Swick commenced drilling onsite in July 2009, since then we have gone on to drill over 600,000m of core. We would like to thank all past and present employees for their contribution to this incredible milestone. We look forward to the years ahead alongside Perilya.

North America

Exciting times for the Swick crews in Alaska who have been working on completing a surface drill program for a new portal onsite. Keep up the great work, team!

Canada

The Swick team ready to go to work in Canada!