Shaft Sinking from 2007 to 2020: Mechanical excavation
The ore was mined from 12,900 coal mines, about 6,500 metal mines and about 80,000 nonmetal mines, with only five per cent of these being underground mines. ... Another shaft excavation machine that was developed by Herrenknecht in a partnership with Rio Tinto in the "Mine of the Future" program was what is now known as the shaft boring ...