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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.
Khewra (Punjabi / Urdu: کھیوڑہ) is the second most populated city of Jhelum District and the neighbor city of Pind Dadan Khan in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. [1] The city is administratively subdivided into two union councils [1] and is the location of the Khewra Salt Mine. The population of Khewra city is about 35,000 (or 80,000).
The Salt Range contains the great mines of Khewra, Kalabagh and Warcha which yield vast supplies of salt. [1] Coal of a medium quality is also found here. [1] The Salt Range starts from the Bakralla and Tilla Jogian ridges in the east and extends to the west of River Jhelum. [3]
The Crystal Valley region of the Khewra Salt Mines in Pakistan.With around 250,000 visitors a year, the site is a major tourist attraction. A small mosque made of salt bricks inside the Khewra Salt Mines complex Large hole drilling rig for blast-hole drilling at salt mine Haigerloch-Stetten
A small masjid made of salt bricks inside the Khewra salt mine complex. The Khewra Salt Mine (or Mayo Salt Mine) is located in Khewra, north of Pind Dadan Khan, [14] an administrative subdivision of Jhelum District, which rises from the Indo-Gangetic Plain. [15] It is Pakistan's largest and oldest salt mine [16] and the world's second largest.
The Khewra Salt Mines are among the world's oldest and biggest salt mines. Salt is mined at Khewra in an underground area of about 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi). Khewra salt mine has an estimated total of 220 million tonnes of rock salt deposits. The current production from the mine is 325,000 tons of salt per annum.
Eight have now been arrested in connection with the disappearance of the 14-year-old, who was eventually rescued from a luxury boat in Islip by her vigilante father.
Khewra mine railway. The Khewra Salt Mines Railway (Urdu: کھیوڑہ نمک کی کان ریلوے) is a 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) narrow-gauge electric railway located at the Khewra Salt Mines in Khewra, Pakistan. [1] Built in 1930, it once hauled extracted salt from the mines, but now brings tourists in to marvel at the salt formations.