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 ...

The 14.25-kilometer Chongming-Taicang Yangtze River tunnel — featuring three vertical shafts and connects Shanghai's ...

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 ...

For the James W. Fowler Co. of Dallas, Ore., using a vertical shaft machine made by Germany’s Herrenknecht for a 145-ft-deep, 30-ft-dia launching portal as part of a $32-million sewer upgrade project ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Next year, the first modern tunnel-boring machines ever used in New Jersey will arrive in North Bergen to begin drilling the first ...

Big progress for new sewage pipe project in Heartland America Park A big breakthrough for Omaha's sewer separation project took place Saturday when a giant tunnel-boring machine drilled through a ...