Robbins is back with innovation!
The rectangular TBM has dimensions of 5 m x 4.5 m and the tunnel it excavates is immediately available for use by the rubber tired vehicles.
At Fresnillo, a silver mine in Mexico, Robbins and the mine operator are making good headway on accessing a deep underground orebody using a rectangular tunnel boring machine.
cover tunnel photo by: Matt Brown from London, England / CC BY
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https://im-mining.com/2021/09/02/robbins-accelerates-fresnillo-development-mdm-rectangular-tunnel-boring-machine/
Robbins accelerates Fresnillo development with MDM rectangular tunnel boring machine
im-mining.com"Fresnillo is always looking for new technology, and we believe that the usage of the MDM5000 is going to be something extremely successful, not only for our company but also for the mining industry"