Engineering
We design and plan safe, efficient underground infrastructure, shaped to the geology and the operating window of each project.
Subterra is an underground mining contractor with our corporate office and central workshop based in Zacatecas, Mexico.
Twenty-two years of tunnel development for national and international operators, weighted toward gold and silver. We pair a hard safety culture with modern equipment and a maintenance discipline that keeps advance rates predictable month after month.
About usLeveraging deep geological insight and disciplined engineering, we work alongside operators to turn raw ground into dependable production.
We design and plan safe, efficient underground infrastructure, shaped to the geology and the operating window of each project.
We stabilise underground workings with bolts, mesh, shotcrete and steel sets wherever the ground is fractured or high risk.
We drive ramps, cross-cuts and access headings on line and on grade, with controlled drilling, blasting and mucking cycles.
We extract mineralised material through stoping methods tuned for throughput, dilution control and the safety of the crew.
We move ore and waste with scooptrams and low-profile trucks on haulage plans built around cycle time and ventilation.
At Subterra we hold that every incident and occupational illness is foreseeable, and we direct our decisions and our daily practice toward protecting the people and the assets in our care.
To that end we commit to giving every collaborator a workplace that is safe, healthy and audited against the standard we set ourselves.
Our underground fleet runs to more than 400 specialised machines across every key mining category. Each unit is chosen for durability, serviceability and control in confined, high-consequence ground.






We run leading brands across the fleet and maintain them in house, so uptime holds where the schedule is decided.
Our fleet“I stayed because the company is known, here and nationally, for finishing what it starts. Representing it is something I am proud of.”
by Juan Erasmo Aguirre
“Subterra gave me the training to move from helper to operator. That changed what my family can plan for.”
by Sebastián Caldera
Operators across Mexico rely on Subterra to run their underground work with safety, precision and results they can audit.
