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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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