Collocations for shaft - noun

deep | vertical | lift, mine (also ‘mineshaft’)
A fire broke out in the main lift shaft.

air, ventilation

bore, drill, sink

down a/the ~
The body had been thrown down a disused mineshaft.

in/into a/the ~, through a/the ~
The workers go down to the tunnels through a vertical shaft sunk from the top of the cliff.

the bottom/top of a shaft
They lowered him down to the bottom of the deep shaft.