Inside mining Zimbabwe (IMZ) this month sat down with a man popular in the mining circles for the splendid work he is doing. Moshen Jena (MJ) is Explosives Engineering and Blasting Specialist currently working for the biggest explosives supplying company, AEL Intelligent Bla...
Bertha was a 17.5 m diameter tunnel boring machine built specifically for the Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel project in Seattle. It was made by Hitachi Zosen Sakai Works in Osaka, Japan, and the machine...
Designed to provide 100-year flood protection for east and southeast Dallas, the 11.6 m diameter Robbins Main Beam tunnel boring machine will excavate the 8 km Mill Creek Drainage Relief tunnel. The largest hard rock TBM ever to bore in the U.S, the machine will change size...
The list of the deepest mines in the world is dominated by South African gold mines with a whooping 6 mines on the list. Of the six South African mines top four are from the Southern neighbor. If the list was to be of the top ten deepest operating mines then another South Af...
Bagger 288 (Excavator 288), built by the German company Krupp for the energy and mining firm Rheinbraun, is a bucket-wheel excavator or mobile strip mining machine. QUICK INFO 1. It can excavate 240,000 tons of coal DAILY 2. Is up to 220 m long 3. Is approximately 96 m high ...
BelAZ 75710 is the world’s world’s largest, highest payload capacity dump truck. The 75710 can carry a 450-tonne (440-long-ton; 500-short-ton) load. With an empty weight of 450 tonnes (440 long tons; 500 short tons), it is much more heavily built than the previou...
