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Capital Drilling’s continued evolution


        has seen the company recently


        change its name to Capital Limited.                                                                                        The company’s blast hole drilling teams achieve redrill


                                                                                                                                   rates of less than 1%, well below industry standards


        Capital Drilling changed its company name to Capital Limited   CAPITAL LIMITED PROVIDES:
        (Capital) in June 2020, to better reflect the expanded range of
                                                                  •   Exploration and production drilling
        services it now offers.
        The company provides load and haul services, fleet        •   Load and haul services
        maintenance and geochemical analysis laboratories in
                                                                  •   Fleet maintenance
        addition to its traditional exploration and production drilling
        services, providing clients with a fully integrated mining   •   Geochemical analysis solutions
        services offer.

        In 2019, Capital increased its mine-site based services   Capital’s load and haul services will complement the existing
        to include Load and Haul and mine management. The    production drilling services, including drill and blast, grade
                                                                                                                                   By providing a fully integrated service, Capital can manage   The Capital group of companies now gives clients the option
        company’s first mining services contract was also awarded   control, pre-splits, dewatering and underground grade
                                                                                                                                   every stage of the process - from designing the blast to   to work with a single service provider to supply all their
        last year, at Allied Gold Corp’s Bonikro Gold Mine in Côte   control drilling.
                                                                                                                                   through to delivery of ore to the mill, delivering a number of   needs from exploration programs to full-scale production.
        d’Ivoire.
                                                                                                                                   efficiencies for its clients.                       Clients will benefit from improved project management
        Capital invested in new equipment to support its mining   Capital can provide clients                                      It is exploration drilling where the Capital story began and   efficiencies, an experienced team who have been delivering
        business and the fleet continues to rapidly expand. It now                                                                 the company continues to provide a full range of exploration   professional services across Africa for more than 15 years
        includes CAT D9 dozers, CAT 16M grader, CAT 6020B     with a more efficient, fully                                         drilling services, including RAB, air core, diamond core   and a partner with an uncompromising commitment to
        mining shovel, CAT 340 excavator and CAT 785 haul trucks.                                                                  and directional drilling, together with underground RC and   safety.
                                                              integrated mining services
        The company has also recruited a team of well credentialed                                                                 diamond drilling.                                   Capital has not only expanded its services recently, it has
        professionals delivering significant contract mining expertise                                                             In 2017, the company completed a strategic acquisition   also opened new premises in Perth and London to better
        and further African experience for the division.      solution                                                                                                                 support clients where their major regional headquarters are
                                                                                                                                   of Canadian-based geochemical laboratory services,
                                                                                                                                                                                       located.
                                                                                                                                   MSALABS. This gave the company access to a global
                                                                                                                                   network of assay laboratories and capability to provide on-  Capital has a long history of successfully expanding the
                                                                                                                                   site laboratories for mining operations. MSALABS provides a   services it offers to clients.  The company has a culture of
                                                                                                                                   complete range of geochemical analysis for both exploration   ensuring professional execution and service delivery and it
                                                                                                                                   and mining projects.                                is these high standards that have driven many of Capital’s
                                                                                                                                                                                       service extensions, often at their client’s request. It is also
                                                                                                                                   As the company looks to further expand into complimentary
                                                                                                                                                                                       these high standards that will see the continued success
                                                                                                                                   services, including broadening their mine-site based
                                                                                                                                                                                       of the company in its next phase as Capital Limited, a
                                                                                                                                   service offer, it established MSM in 2019 to provide asset
                                                                                                                                                                                       complete mining services provider.
                                                                                                                                   maintenance and labour hire, together with specialist mining
                                                                                                                                   supplies.
                                                                                                                                   Additionally, Well Force International complements
                                                                                                                                   exploration drilling projects with a complete range of survey
                                                                                                                                   and core orientation tool rental solutions, on-site surveying                 www.capdrill.com
                                                                                                                                   and geophysical logging services, and HiTT, a unique
                                                                                                                                   software solution for borehole management.                                    info@capdrill.com
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