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Syracuse, New York earned the nickname "The Salt City" for its salt mining, an activity that continues in the region to the present day. [16] Grand Saline, Texas has a Morton Salt mine. It is one of the largest in the world. Houston, Texas, near Daikin Park is a newly discovered saltworks.
The Khewra Salt Mine (Urdu: کھیوڑہ نمک کان), also known as Mayo Salt Mine, is the world's second largest salt mine, located in Khewra, Punjab, Pakistan. [1] The mine is in the Salt Range of the Potohar plateau , which rises from the Indus plain of the Punjab.
Throughout its history, the royal salt mine was operated by the Żupy Krakowskie (Kraków Salt Mines) company. [3] [4] Due to falling salt prices and mine flooding, commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996. [3] [4] The Wieliczka Salt Mine is now an official Polish Historic Monument (Pomnik Historii) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The mine became a showplace for "railroad-pit operations," and the industrial complex defined by the mine and the ASARCO smelting operation made it the "largest industrial mining complex in the world" by 1912. [17]: 168–170 Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated merged after their separate surface operations approached each other in 1906.
This is a list of countries by salt production. The six leading salt producers in the world, China, the United States, India, Germany, Canada, and Australia, account for more than half of the worldwide production. The first table includes data by the British Geological Survey (BGS) for countries with available statistics.
The mine is 530 metres (1,750 feet) below surface, [38] extending 7 km 2 (2.7 sq mi) under Lake Huron - roughly the size of the town. It is the largest underground salt mine in the world. [37] The salt deposits at Goderich are from an ancient sea bed of Silurian age, part of the Salina Formation.
Khewra Salt Mine was reopened in 1872 by a local family of Janjua Rajputs, after the British had wrested control from the Sikhs. [2] Since 2002, the main tunnel of the mine has been converted into a tourist attraction. Some websites claim 35000-40000 visitors come here every year.
The Salt Mines of Maras (or "Salineras de Maras") is one of the largest salt extraction centers of prehispanic origin in Cusco. [1] It is in the Urubamba Province in Cusco in southeast Peru, at an elevation of 3,200 m (10,500 ft) above sea level.