Shaft Lining
In North and South America, smaller shafts are designed to be rectangular with timber supports. Larger shafts are round and are concrete lined.
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“The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)