1.   A plug had been inserted in the drill hole.

2.   Borneo today released results of samples collected from the surface of the lease, but not from the drill holes.

3.   A crew of roughnecks is quickly recruited to take specially equipped shuttles to the asteroid, drill holes in it and plant nuclear bombs to blow it off course.

4.   A state mining official is skeptical such a conclusion can be drawn from four drill holes.

5.   But promising evidence emerged last year, when ice cores taken from a drill hole that stopped several hundred yards above the lake were shown to contain bacteria.

6.   Drill pilot holes along the inside edge of the casing.

7.   Drill pilot holes then secure the brace with two-inch wood screws.

8.   If you use wood screws, drill pilot holes first, then counterbore larger holes to recess the screwheads.

9.   Like the others before him, Lucas ran into problems with shifting sands that clogged his drill hole.

10.   Mt. Kersey said in its June quarterly report it had found low-grade nickel in exploratory drill holes on its ground.