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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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Well, it was not much of a TBM after all. I came out as a mining machine, right?