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[Crossroads Inc.]

Not sure if this has been done before, I would imagine SOMEONE would have discovered this before.
But just to everyone else...

As we all know, upon discovering the "Candy" we want to mine as much as possible without hitting the internal cavity. Once the cavity is breached, "FUN" usually happens soon after. Well...

If you breach the cavity inside, the interior is revealed all the way down.  If you are lucky you re-seal it immediatly.  The purpose?

Once you can see the cavity, you dig down the outside of it to the bottom using up/down stairs.
At the bottom layer, to prepar make a small stockpile of stone, and have a mason/miner standing by. 
Breach the cavity once more, and then VERY quickly reseal it by flooring over the bottom. If done properly, this will allow you to mine out the entire columne of Candy un-molested.

[Hotaru]

Might want to alert as it has spoilers. Also,

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[Pandarsenic]

What Crossroads is referring to is cracking it open so you can see where the bottom is, then basically setting up to rush the bottom when nothing is next to it and construct floor over it all at once.

[Flying Dice]

Much easier to just use the fortification method to find the bottom, tunnel as far toward it as you can without breaching, and then do this.

[ivanthe8th]

Alternatively you could just use dwarven ground-penetrating radar.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=93694.0

[Funburns]

If you really want to minimize risk, you could first use fortifications to discover the lowest level, as per Flying Dice. Then place two fortifications on opposite sides of the shaft at that level, connected to two separate side rooms. Those rooms could then be separately filled with magma and water. If both rooms' floodgates were opened at the same time, could the shaft be safely capped with an obsidian plug? If that works, multiple trials might be necessary if the obsidian doesn't form in the right spots.

Alternatively you could just use dwarven ground-penetrating radar.

There's also the similarly cheaty-flavored but less precise method of

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stretching an [i] zone over unexplored rock and seeing if it has any positive number for a Meeting Area, since the UI will display whether a tile is open space or not for those purposes regardless of whether it's revealed to the player.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Alternatively you could just use dwarven ground-penetrating radar.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=93694.0

Dear god that is AWESOME! need to try that when i get home