Search Results: 'Wirth'

Growing underground
11 December, 2013
Ever more efficient mine development infrastructure, and geotechnical planning, are key to expanding production at major mines. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Inroads below
04 December, 2013
TBMs, hybrids, and pipejacking technology are finding greater applications and opportunities in mining, reports Patrick Reynolds

Aker Solutions sells German mining and construction assets
02 December, 2013
Aker Solutions agreed to sell its German Aker Wirth tunnel-boring and shaft-boring technology to China Railway Tunneling Equipment (CRTE), as part of a plan to divest assets that do not fit with its main offshore-services strategy, the company announced yesterday.

Chilean mining company awards MTM contact
30 January, 2013
A contract for the delivery and testing of a Mobile Tunnel Miner (MTM) has been confirmed between Aker Wirth and Codelco, the world’s largest producer of copper. The contract, which was signed at the end of 2012, will see the machine tested from mid-2014 in the Chuquicamata mine in Chile where the underground mining of copper is planned for the future.