Bamboo Rock Drilling — People You Can Work With. Reputation is everything. Empowering People. Building Client Satisfaction.

Operating throughout the African continent — surface and underground mining and exploration drilling, delivered by experienced local teams with premium, first-life equipment.

Our Capabilities Where We Operate

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Where We Operate

16 countries. One network.

Regional offices plus decades of project delivery — locally registered, in-country logistics, safety-first.

Regional Office · Experience
Regional Office
Country Experience

Regional Office · Country Experience

South AfricaBamboo Rock Drilling
ZambiaBamboo Rock Drilling
Ivory CoastBamboo Rock Drilling
Burkina FasoBamboo Rock Drilling
NamibiaBamboo Rock Drilling
BotswanaBR Drilling
TanzaniaBamboo Rock Drilling / BR Drilling
KenyaBamboo Rock Drilling
MaliBamboo Rock Drilling

Country Experience

Saudi ArabiaBamboo Rock Drilling
EthiopiaBamboo Rock Drilling
DRCBamboo Rock Drilling
MozambiqueBamboo Rock Drilling
GhanaBamboo Rock Drilling
MalawiBamboo Rock Drilling
ZimbabweBamboo Rock Drilling

Operations

countries of experience.

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Bamboo Rock Drilling Group

“Perfectly equipped for your every mining and exploration drilling need.”

Operating throughout the African continent.

Bamboo Rock Drilling Group operates throughout the African continent and is focused on empowering local stakeholders.

By creating a network of locally registered businesses, engaging with key local selected partners and backed by our years of experience and wealth of knowledge in the sector, we are perfectly equipped for your every mining and exploration drilling need.

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Experience

A reliable drilling contractor.

Our local knowledge, experience and operations are well-developed, which in turn offers attractive benefits to our clients.

Our capabilities include surface and underground mining and exploration drilling services. Bamboo Rock Drilling is capable and equipped to offer the full spectrum of drilling disciplines.

Our Capabilities

The numbers

Proof, not promises.

A record of delivery shaped by local presence, premium equipment and a safety culture that never slips.

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Network of regional offices and country experience across Africa and Saudi Arabia.
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Established
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Founded by Darren Smit. Built on service delivery from day one.
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No deaths, disabilities or serious injuries recorded since inception.
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Drilling disciplines
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Blast hole to geo-technical — with sample recovery and customer value built into every job.

Drilling scope · Single calendar year

Metres in the ground, in one year.

Everything below was drilled between 1 January and 31 December 2025 — one year of delivery across surface and underground, production and exploration.

Total metres drilled in 2025

One calendar year1 Jan — 31 Dec 2025 · 12 months

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Established

Drilling for the Future

About Bamboo Rock Drilling

Bamboo Rock Drilling was founded by Darren Smit in 2010. The company has since built its reputation on service delivery — offering comprehensive services to the resource exploration and mining sectors in Africa.

Safety

Dedicated to safety & sustainability.

Zero-tolerance policy. The SHE system and waste management systems are integrated across the company and fully compliant with global health and safety standards.

No deaths, disabilities or serious injuries recorded since inception.

Safety & Sustainability

HSE record · LTI-free

Years without a lost-time injury.

Consecutive years free of lost-time injuries (LTI), tracked at every active project and office. The metric we care about most is the one we never want to reset.

Combined LTI-free years across the group

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Counted across 11 active projects and offices, alongside zero deaths, disabilities or serious injuries recorded since inception.

Longest unbroken run

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The longest continuous LTI-free stretch on record.

What We Do

The full spectrum of drilling disciplines.

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What we do

Six disciplines. One partner.

Six core drilling disciplines — with sample recovery and customer value built into every one. Delivered by experienced local teams with first-life premium equipment.

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