Hughes Drilling was established over 30 years ago and remains one of the UK’s leading mineral exploration & environmental drilling companies servicing the UK’s largest quarrying and aggregate firms. With a diverse range of specialized drilling rigs and equipment for low-ground pressure services including sonic and exploration drilling/inclined and directional/core/wireline and conventional/RC drilling, CFA, HSA utilizing triple tube systems. We also specialize in the drilling and installations for geothermal GSHP systems and water boreholes from the small domestic client through to the larger commercial projects. Health and Safety on every project is key, we are proud accredited members of 'Avetta', (formerly PICS), with membership to the Well Drillers Association.

Addison Mining Services specialise in mineral resource and reserve estimation, exploration program design and implementation, procedural audits and best practice operating procedure development, Competent Persons studies reporting to JORC2012 and NI43-101 standards.