Boart Longyear Longyear, which eventually became Boart Longyear. He drilled his first diamond drill core hole in 1890 in northern Minnesota. Longyear's company developed the wire-line retrieved Q core barrel. Longyear was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame in Leadville, Colo in 1990. On March 1, 2016, Mr. Jeffrey Olsen was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Boart Longyear. He joined the company as the Chief Financial Officer in March 2014. Boart Longyear conducts contract drilling services in more than 40 countries, and provides mining products to customers in over 100 countries. Boart Longyear Boart Longyear is a global
Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (17 September 1814 at Châteauroux – 29 July 1892 in Paris), was a French writer and politician. He entered the civil service after the completion of his education at the École Polytechnique. He was a railway expert, becoming secretary-general of the Railway Commission established in 1842, government commissioner to the authorized railway companies, administrator of the Lyon-Mediterranean railway, and commissioner to examine foreign railways. In 1846 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Hérault, but the revolution of 1848 drove him into private life, from which he only