When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Detroit salt mine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_salt_mine

    The Detroit salt mine is a salt mine located 1,100 ft (340 m) below Detroit, Michigan. [1] The mine opened in 1910 and covers 1,500 acres (610 ha) underground. [2] In the beginning, the leather and food industries were the primary customers. Today, road deicing salt is the primary product. [3]

  3. List of mines in Michigan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mines_in_Michigan

    Map all coordinates using ... GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a partial list of current and defunct mines in Ashland. Name ... Detroit salt mine: Wayne: 1906– salt

  4. St. Clair, Michigan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair,_Michigan

    Cargill Salt (formerly Diamond Crystal) operates a large solution salt mine and evaporation facility in St. Clair. This is the only plant in the United States that produces Alberger salt, which is especially prized in the fast food industry because of its higher volume (due to its unique shape) and lower sodium content (for a given volume, not ...

  5. The Thumb - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thumb

    Cargill Salt operates a large salt mine and factory in St. Clair. This is the only plant in the U.S.A. that produces Alberger salt, which is especially prized in the fast food industry because of its higher volume (due to its unique shape) and lower sodium content (for a given volume, not weight). This is part of Michigan's large salt-mining ...

  6. Cargill spending $34 million to improve salt facility, River ...

    www.aol.com/news/cargill-spending-34-million...

    The St. Martin facility is used for processing salt. Cargill has operated the facility since 1971. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

  7. Salt mining - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_mining

    Diorama of an underground salt mine in Germany. Inside Salina Veche, in Slănic, Prahova, Romania.The railing (lower middle) gives the viewer an idea of scale. Before the advent of the modern internal combustion engine and earth-moving equipment, mining salt was one of the most expensive and dangerous of operations because of rapid dehydration caused by constant contact with the salt (both in ...

  8. Michigan Basin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Basin

    Halite (rock salt) occurs in beds of the Salina Formation and the Detroit River Group . The Detroit salt mine has mined rock salt from beneath the Detroit metropolitan area since 1906. [ 2 ] Brine recovered from wells in the Michigan basin has been used as a commercial source of potassium salts, bromine , iodine , calcium chloride , and ...

  9. Petrochemical giant's closed salt mine partially collapses in ...

    www.aol.com/news/petrochemical-giants-salt-mine...

    A closed rock salt mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem partially collapsed Sunday in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio, the city's civil defense authority said. It quoted ...