I am looking for some marketing information.
I want to know how many diamond drilling rigs are in active operation
globally. Diamond drilling rigs are used primarily in mining
exploration,
mine development, and mine operation. I am NOT talking about drilling
rigs for oil&gas exploration.
By active, I mean drill rigs that are busy drilling holes.
Simple searches on "diamond drill rigs", etc. return information from
individual mining companies and their drilling programs - this is
probably not the way to go about the search. There are a lot of mining
companies and not all mining companies report activity in this way.
Information for active oil&gas rigs is available at
http://www.bakerhughes.com/investor/rig/rig_int.htm - I am looking for
equivalent information for the mining sector.
At a minimum, I need a total active count estimate (with explanation of how
the estimate was obtained), but geographical distribution information
(such as is available for oil&gas at the above-mentioned URL) would be
a bonus (i.e., so many rigs in Australia, so many in South America,
etc.). I would also need to know is any geographical areas are
excluded from the estimate (e.g., former USSR).
Data must be for 2004 or later.
Since this information is required for a business proposal, I will
need to have the reference(s) for the information so that it can be
quoted in the document I am preparing. |