Forage G4

Forage G4 distinguishes itself on projects presenting high technical difficulties. The team accomplishes work with efficiency and professionalism in all conditions, while maintaining respect for communities and environmental standards.

The company’s mission is to provide quality, custom drilling services for exploration and mining industries through engaged workforce from field employees to senior management, while maintaining a safe and rewarding work environment. Forage G4 has been in business since 2006.

Forage G4 offers superior drilling quality allowing better cost per metre. Particular care is applied to core recovery and identification, facilitating geologist analysis. Each sample is carefully handled and immediately classified upon extraction to guarantee maximum reliable data. Each drilling unit is carefully assembled by the mechanical team, ensuring quality control of components and a significant parts reserve to optimize drilling time. Each work team is supported by a mechanic responsible for proper operation and maintenance of each drill to limit involuntary shutdowns.

The company is specialized in all drilling types and possesses undeniable expertise through its G4 research and development banner, which invents and manufactures all parts and accessories required for unique projects. Services include surface drilling, underground drilling, difficult terrain drilling, directional drilling, helicopter-portable drilling, service hole drilling, and deep hole drilling.

Specialized in diamond drilling on rugged terrain and in extreme conditions, Forage G4 intervenes successfully where others have failed. Operating from the Arctic to Latin America, in saprolite, in subsoil with water problems, and in permafrost, the company addresses very rugged terrain, very high altitude sites, isolated locations without access, territories with extreme temperatures, mountain flanks, difficult soils, and subsoils with water problems.

Forage G4 provides complete drilling and blasting service adapted to needs, including north of the 51st parallel. The company manages all drilling, blasting, and engineering operations according to demands and possesses all auxiliary equipment necessary for 100 percent autonomous operations when required. The team has developed knowledge and advanced techniques for casing installation in difficult holes while remaining efficient, handling both cardboard and PVC casing and installing casing to respect engineering service plans.

For underground drilling, the company’s divisions can fulfill all underground drilling needs from exploration drilling to long-hole and large diameter hole drilling in any climate. The COMMANDER is a custom drilling installation meeting all production drilling, service hole drilling, and ventilation raise drilling needs.