A new method of stabilizing and making shafts like this safe is to fill the
shaft with a sort of foam product that hardens on contact.  This has been
used for a number of shafts in Joshua Tree National Park here in
California.  You coould call NPS conservation and find out the product.  I
do not think that it is expensive.





At 08:52 AM 7/30/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I  heard from a friend back in Michigan that the Cornish Pump Museum in Iron
>Mountain is in danger.  It seems the museum, which is located on an old
>mining site, and houses a giant Cornish pump, is in danger of falling into
>the mine.  The cap on the old shaft collapsed, and now a 1500 foot deep hole
>threatens to spread.  Does anybody have more info on this, and does anyone
>have any idea of emmergency funding the museum could pursue, for I
>understand they do not have the money to cap the mine.  (Here's a new
>category for the disaster preparedness plan, subsidance and mine collapse)
>
>Rick Fields
>
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