Long Narrow Passages
- Elevator shaft
- Ventilation shaft, vertical passages used in mines and tunnels to move fresh air underground, and to remove stale air
- Shaft (civil engineering), an underground vertical or inclined passageway
- Pitch (ascent/descent), a significant underground vertical space in caving terminology
- Shaft mining, refers to the method of excavating a vertical or near-vertical tunnel from the top down, where there is initially no access to the bottom
- Shafting, illicit travelling through shafts
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