We put steelin the ground.
Diamond core, reverse circulation and geotechnical programs across the high desert. Hard rock, bad roads, night shifts — Gorilla Drillers turns a claim map into logged, boxed, defensible core.
One contractor, collar to reclamation
Diamond Core Drilling
HQ, NQ and BQ wireline programs to 3,000 ft. Oriented core, high recovery, logged and boxed at the collar.
Reverse Circulation
Fast, dry-sample RC for grade control and first-pass exploration. Cyclone-split intervals bagged to your spec.
Geotechnical & Environmental
Sonic, auger and mud rotary for foundations, tailings, monitoring wells and Phase II investigations.
Water Wells & Dewatering
Production wells, piezometers and pump-test installs for mine sites, ranches and municipal districts.
Remote Access & Pad Build
Own dozer and backhoe support. We cut the road, build the pad, drill the hole, then reclaim it.
24-Hour Rotations
Two-shift crews with lighting plants and on-site fuel. The rig does not sleep when your program is on the clock.
Rigs that get to the hole
Track-mounted and skid core rigs, buggy-mounted RC, and our own dirt equipment so a bad two-track never becomes a standby day. Rod, barrels, bits and reaming shells stocked in the Hawthorne yard — no waiting on a supply truck out of Reno.
- Track core rigs — HQ to 2,100 ft, NQ to 3,000 ft
- Buggy RC with dual-tube 4.5" hammer strings
- Dozer, backhoe and water truck support in-house
- Light plants, fuel trailers and self-contained camp gear
Recovery your geologist can trust
Core comes out of the barrel and into the box the way it came out of the ground — oriented, blocked, depth-marked and photographed before it leaves the pad. Runs are logged with recovery and RQD, and boxes are banded and staged for pickup the same shift.
We show up self-supported
Four-wheel-drive F-150 and F-350 crew trucks with headache racks and shop boxes, a water truck, a fuel trailer and our own dirt equipment. If the claim block has no road, we cut one — nobody sits on standby waiting for a subcontractor out of Reno.
Crew trucks
4x4 crew cabs on every pad, rigged with racks, spares and radios.
Hawthorne yard
Rod, bits, barrels and core boxes stocked in-house, loaded before dawn.
Road & pad
Dozer, backhoe and water truck — access built and reclaimed by us.
Twelve on, twelve off. The hole keeps going down.
Lighted pads, fueled rigs and rotating crews out of Hawthorne, Tonopah and Ely. When your permit window is short, we run around the clock.
Everybody drives home
MSHA Part 46
Every hand trained and current before boots hit the pad.
Daily JSAs
Written hazard analysis and toolbox talk each shift change.
NV licensed & bonded
Nevada water well and drilling contractor licensed, fully insured.
Reclamation
Sumps closed, pads recontoured, BLM notice conditions met.
Send us the hole plan
Give us collar coordinates, target depth and access notes. Most bids go back inside two business days, and we will tell you straight if a program is better served by another method.
- Yard & shop
- 4820 Sagebrush Flat Road
Hawthorne, Nevada 89415 - Dispatch — 24 hours
- (775) 412-0968