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What (who) is mineshaft - definition

EXCAVATING A VERTICAL OR NEAR-VERTICAL TUNNEL FROM THE TOP DOWN, WHERE THERE IS INITIALLY NO ACCESS TO THE BOTTOM

Shaft mine; Mine shaft; Shaft-sinking; Shaft construction; Shaft-Sinking; Mine shafts; Mine cage; Shaft (mining); Mineshaft; Shaft mining

mineshaft

¦ noun a deep, narrow shaft that gives access to a mine.

Mineshaft (magazine)

INTERNATIONAL ART MAGAZINE

Mineshaft magazine; Mineshaft Magazine

Mineshaft is an independent international art magazine launched in 1999 by Everett Rand and Gioia Palmieri in Guilford, Vermont. Initially focusing on poetry and literature, the magazine began to publish comics after Robert Crumb became a contributor in 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineshaft_(magazine)

Mineshaft (horse)

RACE HORSE

Mineshaft (foaled May 17, 1999, in Kentucky) is a multi-millionaire American thoroughbred racehorse and successful stallion. He was sired by 1992 U.

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Shaft sinking

Shaft mining or shaft sinking is the action of excavating a mine shaft from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom. Shallow shafts, typically sunk for civil engineering projects, differ greatly in execution method from deep shafts, typically sunk for mining projects.

Shaft sinking is one of the most difficult of all mine development methods: restricted space, gravity, groundwater and specialized procedures make the task quite formidable. Shafts may be sunk by conventional drill and blast or mechanised means.

Historically, mine shaft sinking has been among the most dangerous of all the mining occupations and the preserve of mining contractors called sinkers. Today shaft sinking contractors are concentrated in Canada, Germany, China and South Africa.

The modern shaft sinking industry is gradually shifting further towards greater mechanisation. Recent innovations in the form of full-face shaft boring (akin to a vertical tunnel boring machine) have shown promise but the use of this method is, as of 2019, not widespread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaft sinking

Examples of use of mineshaft

1. In a Hong Kong context, we are the canary in the mineshaft.

2. Their bodies were soaked in acid and burned before being disposed in a mineshaft.

3. "I had been considering a unique wedding, but never thought of down a mineshaft."

4. But after being lowered into a mineshaft and confronted with scorpions, toads, rats and snakes, he thought again.

5. State television showed ambulances rushing to the scene and rescuers escorting a survivor from the mineshaft, his face and clothes covered in soot.