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Borehole Drilling in Rustenburg
Thinking of drilling a borehole in Rustenburg? Send the area, what the water is for, how much access a rig has, and what holes nearby have found if you know, so drillers who work in Rustenburg and across North West can quote rates per metre, casing and testing.
New to this? Read the borehole drilling guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you buy.
Installation, repairs & parts in Rustenburg: local notes
Rustenburg has plenty of workshops that rebuild slurry pumps and rewind large motors, and some will also handle a borehole pump from a house. Mine work needs inductions and a safety file, so ask whether the contractor has them. For homes, a local installer can usually pull and test a pump within the week. Ask whether hired dewatering pumps come with hoses, delivery and collection.
Rustenburg: the properties, the water and the pump shops
Platinum mining around Rustenburg makes it one of the country's busiest markets for heavy pumps. Shafts and concentrators along the belt from Phokeng to Marikana need dewatering pumps underground, slurry pumps for tailings and process water, and a steady supply of wear parts. Town life brings a different list. Many suburbs, from Safari Gardens to Cashan, have had water interruptions, so houses add tanks, boosters and boreholes. Smallholdings at the foot of the Magaliesberg and around Kroondal pump for vegetables, citrus and livestock. The black clay soils that cover much of the area swell when wet and crack when dry, which matters for pipe trenches and pump plinths. Workshops and mine suppliers fill the light industrial areas on the edge of town.
Typical borehole drilling requests in the area come from:
- Mines and quarries: boreholes drilled for site water supply and groundwater monitoring
- Factories, plants and depots: a factory borehole for process water, with licensing checked first
- Homeowners: a garden borehole in the suburbs drilled to ride out water cuts
Local tips for Rustenburg
Asked for most in Rustenburg: slurry and mine dewatering pumps, wear parts, boreholes for town and plots. Where the pump shops and drillers are: mine suppliers, pump shops and rewinders in Rustenburg's light industrial areas. A useful tip: ask how often liners and impellers need changing on the slurry you pump.
Sizes vary: often 30 to 150 m deep, sometimes deeper. Here, mines and quarries lead the requests, typically for boreholes drilled for site water supply and groundwater monitoring. One local point to raise: workshops serve the whole platinum belt; Pretoria is about 110 km away on the N4.
Service area: Rustenburg and surrounds
Pump suppliers and technicians on our network work in Rustenburg and surrounding areas, including Phokeng, Boitekong, Tlhabane, Marikana, Kroondal, Mooinooi, Safari Gardens. Give your suburb or farm, so the call-out and travel can be quoted honestly.