Shaft sinking original-equipment manufacturer Herrenknecht is engaged in numerous feasibility studies with mining contractors in South Africa and other African countries, such as Zambia, for the ...

Rosie, the tunnel boring machine, surfaced today for the first time in more than two years. A 700-ton crane lifted the machine's 460-ton main section out of a 100-foot-deep shaft built as part of ...

What’s 14 feet tall, weighs 380 tons, lives more than a hundred feet underground, and moves 1/4 mile per hour at its fastest? Alexandria’s new tunnel boring machine, of course! The massive blue and ...

MINSK, 16 October (BelTA) – The installation of the first shaft boring roadheader (SBR machine) has begun in the Nezhinsky potash mining and processing factory in Lyuban District, Minsk Oblast, BelTA ...

To say that Deep Foundations Contractors (deep) was drilling in a confined space within an extraction shaft on the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit Project (Crosstown) would be an understatement.

Mumbai: A day after Supreme Court gave in-principle clearance for cutting 95 trees in Goregaon's Film City to take tunnel boring machines underground to carve out 6.6km twin tunnels for the ...