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Breaking News ..................................................................13 Classified Section: WorldWide SUPER MART™ ..................49-64 Dealmakers ..........................................................................8 Education Connection ......................................................28 Fun Page ............................................................................26 Hot Off the Press - Sponsored by Aries Industries, Inc. ..9 Obituary: Poppell, Zane Earl ............................................16 Photo Gallery ..................................................................8,30 Product Spotlight ..............................................................29 Where are you planning to go? ........................................33 Who’s in the News .............................................................13 WorldWide Association Memberships ................................31 WorldWide Business Directory™ ..................................10,11 WorldWide .........6 Editorial Focus for January - Exploration / Blasthole C&G DIR ENV EXB G&O GEO MIN WTR Aardvark Packers...............................................................12 Allegheny Instruments........................................................29 America West Drilling Supply..............................................61 Aries Industries, Inc..............................................................9 Armstrong Machine Co., Inc. (AMCI)..................................24 Atlantic Screen & Manufacturing, Inc. (ASI)........................23 Baker Water Systems.........................................................41 bauma Munich 2019...........................................................34 Better Water Industries, Inc.................................................35 Bitco, Inc.............................................................................26 Bloom Mfg., Inc...................................................................38 CONEXPO-CON/AGG ® ......................................................22 Drilling Equipment Sales, Inc. (DES)....................................2 Drilling Supply & Mfg (DSM)...............................................14 DRILLMAX ® ..........................................................................1 Flomatic Corporation..........................................................45 Foremost Industries............................................................39 Future of Mining Australia...................................................13 GEFCO, Inc. (an Astec Industries Company).....................48 GEFCO, Inc. (an Astec Industries Company).....................63 GeoPro, Inc.........................................................................37 Geoprobe Systems ® ..............................................................3 Geothermal Supply Company, Inc. (GSC)..........................18 Hole Products.....................................................................16 Infinity Tool Manufacturing....................................................4 International Construction & Utility Equip Expo (ICUEE)....27 KS Bit, Inc...........................................................................19 Michigan Ground Water Association (MGWA) Conf...........43 Mills Machine Company, Inc...............................................21 Montana Water Well Drillers Assoc. (MWWDA) Conv.........28 Mountain States Ground Water Expo.................................36 N&N Drilling Supply.............................................................33 New England Water Well Association (NEWWA) Expo.......18 Palmer Bit Company...........................................................62 Pioneer Sands LLC.............................................................46 Qwater Well Development Tools.........................................32 Rex McFadden Ltd.............................................................25 SEMCO, Inc........................................................................64 Star Iron Works, Inc..............................................................7 Star Iron Works, Inc............................................................44 T&T Carbide, Inc.................................................................42 TDH Manufacturing Inc.......................................................47 Texas Ground Water Association (TGWA) Convention.......20 Virginia Water Well Assoc. (VWWA) Conference................17 Well-Vu, Inc.........................................................................40 Wyo-Ben, Inc......................................................................15 Advertisers Featured Editorial: C&G - Construction/Geotechnical ENV - Environmental G&O - Shallow Gas and Oil MIN - Mining DIR - Horizontal Directional Drilling EXB - Exploration/Blasthole GEO - Geothermal WTR - Water A Knights Tale: Medieval Sword Unearthed................7 Wilson, Jr., Robert Evans: The Un-Comfort Zone II...20 Is 3-DPrinting the Future of Equipment Manufacturing?...30 “Smith, Billy Bob”: The “Idiot’s” Corner..................17 Achieving Better Success Rates!..............................23 California Natural Gas Pipeline Receives Upgrades....32,46 E-News Flash Readers’ Choice : TEC-11 Horizontal Well..48 Kwader, Thomas: Environmental Monitoring...........12 China Completes Drilling of Deep Borehole..............24 Permian Basin Receives Two New Waste Facilities..45 Kuebelbeck, Jim: Through the Back Door!..............18 Longest Railway Tunnel in East Africa......................26 Precision Controlled Rock Blasting...........................35 Seabees Assist with Exploration Drilling in Colombia..40 Ohio Study Finds No Methane Contamination..........28 Wire, Jeremy C.: Tales from the Field......................29 Connor, Tim: How Do You Want to be Remembered?..37 Hemp Solves Lost Circulation with the Environment...41 Akiira Geothermal Continues Exploration in Kenya.....21 Battersby, Mark E.: Drilling Into Money Not Boring.....25 Promising Drilling Results for GEothermie 2020.......43 More Exploration Drilling Coming to the Philippines..44 Storkson, Britt: Automate Something Because.........8 Epiroc Invests in Autonomous Technology................23 The World of Minerals...............................................36 Frequently-Used Geological Terms Part 77..............46 New Check Valve Now Available...............................12 Can Chemical Oxidation Help with Soil andWell Cont.?...15 Rasmussen, Tim: Water For Life International........32 Constructing a Water Well.........................................38 5 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® JANUARY 2019