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During a test of the shaft deluge system, airflow sensors on the 4850 Level recorded an unexpected increase in air movement.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

A headframe — that’s the tower built directly over an underground mine shaft — is part of Tonopah’s logo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

Italian Andrea Pavan said he is "optimistic" about a return to playing after he fell down an open lift shaft in February.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

It plans to sink the mine’s first shaft this year, and hopes to repeat similar success in Congo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Leaning perilously over the edge, she dangled her axe head first, with the shaft strap wound around her wrist.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Under normal conditions, fresh air enters the facility through two primary shafts and exits through two separate shafts.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

When the Journal visited the Mutoshi mine in 2018, Congolese miners working for the company could be seen descending into hand-dug shafts without helmets, shoes or safety equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

While rare earths will be the primary focus, exploration will also assess the potential for gold mining — the area is dotted with old, small-scale adits and shafts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

Springs was once a booming gold town, but its mines were closed several years ago because the extreme depth of the shafts made operations uneconomical.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

I was going up the stairs to meet Mom when one of the metal shafts snapped.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

In her view, she was shafted into the “what’s mine is yours” agreement.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

"I didn't anticipate that if things went wrong that we would be shafted, to put it bluntly".

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025

“The continuous theme in the record industry, from vinyl to Napster to streaming,” Menn said, “is that bands get shafted in every single iteration of the system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

The rare find included a shafted Roman "pilum" spear.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023

Looking at the shafted sun, Francie had that same fine feeling that came when she recalled the poem they recited in school.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

For some, it’s the beautiful place where having it all means shafting someone else, as in Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown,” about Los Angeles’ theft of water from the Owens Valley.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2019

Lindsay was instrumental, way back in the dark ages of the fifties, in forcing the N.H.L. to redress the historic shafting of their chattels by an ownership combine stuck in nineteenth-century ideas of employee relations.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 19, 2015

Not too long ago, positive change inevitably occurred following an embarrassing news report of a company behaving badly, e.g., shafting its employees out of their justly earned wages.

From Forbes ● Feb. 16, 2015

Among four citations alleging repeat safety violations were charges of unguarded elevated platforms and horizontal shafting.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 16, 2014

Instead she saw...the sky—moonlight shafting through smoke, and even the glimmer of stars.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor