Shaft sinking company United Mining Services (UMS) boasts shaft sinking innovations that the company is applying across its international projects, says CEO Digby Glover. Throughout its 60-year history, UMS has helped its clients extract value from the world’s most challenging ore bodies. Over the last six decades, the organisation’s shaft sinking division has gained “invaluable” experience and expertise from sinking more than 170 000 m of vertical shafts globally.