big-hole drilling

excavation

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In tunnels and underground excavations: Shaft sinking and drilling
…methods in a technique called big-hole drilling, used for constructing small shafts in the diameter range of three to six feet. Big-hole drilling was developed for deep emplacement in underground testing of nuclear devices, with more than 150 such big holes drilled in the 1960s up to 5,000 feet deep…
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