HALL CORE DRILLING
Water in Pretoria

Hall Core is a contract drilling company focusing exclusively on drilling for the mining and water industries. The majority of the rigs are trailer or truck mounted, facilitating efficient between-hole transfers, aimed at minimizing standing time and maximizing production. The business was started in early 2000 and employs 250 people and drills for all major African commodities, including gold, uranium, platinum, iron ore and coal. Hall Core is a truly African company taking pride in outstanding and exemplary service to clients - the cornerstone of Hall Core's values.The drill rigs range in size enabling Hall Core to give each client a cost effective solution tailored to their needs. The fleet caters for extreme conditions with our man and helicopter portable rigs, deployed with great success in wet, mountainous and "between crop" drilling conditions.

Water is injected into the drill pipe, so as to wash out the core produced by the bit. Management and staff were found to be very cooperative and responsive. The Hall Core Drilling team appear to take pride in providing the client with competitive and efficient exploration drilling services. CCIC Coal has contracted a number of drilling programmes to Hallcore Drilling since Hall Core Drilling is proving to be a very professional and competent drilling company, in terms of their technical performance, their compliance with safety, health and environmental issues as well as their ability to form an excellent working relationship with us as clients. Although this was the company's first project in Tanzania, the drill productivity was compared favourably with other companies with many years of drilling experience in the conditions, operating in the region. Technically, the core drilling returned very high core recoveries and good quality of core to our geologists. Our field personnel and management have developed a strong working relationship with Hall Core's team members. Quality of core produced was well up to industry standards. Hall Core Drilling has been providing Rock and Stock Investments (Pty) Ltd with their diamond core drilling expertise since 2000 on numerous different exploration projects both on and off mine. More recently Hall Core Drilling have been providing their services to a number Rock and Stock's clients namely; Platfields Ltd who are involved in exploration on platinum projects in the Bushveld and a gold project in the Pilgrims' Rest Goldfield and to Makana Exploration and Mining Ltd who are conducting exploration on a coal project in the Delmas area. The level of service provided and quality of core produced is very high and they have proved themselves capable of resolving any issues or problems that may arise in relation to core drilling programmes. Camps are designed according the project specific conditions as every project faces a unique set of challenges, from the deserts in Mauritania to the jungle in Cameroon. Hall Core is a contract drilling company focusing exclusively on drilling for the mining and water industries. The business was started in early 2000 with a single drill rig. Quality production is paramount and no shortcuts are taken on maintenance or drill rig supervision, as these two aspects underpin quality production. Hall Core has a dedicated technical team servicing and maintaining our drill rigs. Hall Core's mission is to consistently meet the needs and expectations of our clients, by drilling better and more efficiently, while at the same time maintaining the highest standards in safety and environmental risk management. Mr. Van Staden has 26 years' experience in finance, eight of those in the mining industry. John is an executive director at True Group (Proprietary) based in East London. John's work experience ranges from working as an attorney, to tax consulting and banking. Prior to joining Savannah Resources, Kofi worked with the International Finance Corporation as an Investment Officer, Gemini Consulting as a Senior Management Consultant and Schlumberger Oilfield Services as a Field Engineer. The company's mantra, HARM FREE encompasses safety, health and the environment in which Hall Core operates and takes priority in every aspect of the business. Not only do we supply our people with the best available Personal Protection Equipment we also replace their Equipment on a regular basis.