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  2. Mark Ireland (priest) - Wikipedia

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    Mark Ireland (priest) Mark Campbell Ireland [1] (born 5 April 1960) [2] became the Archdeacon of Blackburn in 2016. [3] Ireland was educated at University of St Andrews and Wycliffe Hall Oxford; and ordained in 1985. He was a director of Saltmine Trust (company 02930528) from 2005 to 2008. [1]

  3. Wieliczka Salt Mine - Wikipedia

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    The Wieliczka Salt Mine ( Polish: Kopalnia soli Wieliczka) is a salt mine in the town of Wieliczka, near Kraków in southern Poland . From Neolithic times, sodium chloride ( table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. The Wieliczka salt mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 1996, [ 2] as one ...

  4. History of salt - Wikipedia

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    Salt, also referred to as table salt or by its chemical formula NaCl (sodium chloride), is an ionic compound made of sodium and chloride ions. All life depends on its chemical properties to survive. It has been used by humans for thousands of years, from food preservation to seasoning. Salt's ability to preserve food was a founding contributor ...

  5. Salt in Cheshire - Wikipedia

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    Location of Cheshire in England. Cheshire is a county in North West England. Rock salt was laid down in this region some 220 million years ago, during the Triassic period. Seawater moved inland from an open sea, creating a chain of shallow salt marshes across what is today the Cheshire Basin. As the marshes evaporated, deep deposits of rock ...

  6. Salt mining - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Lion Salt Works - Wikipedia

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    Six generations of the Thompson family were involved with the salt industry, at the site of the Lion Salt Works. John Thompson Senior (1799–1867) was originally a joiner, timber merchant and brickyard owner with premises on Witton Street and London Road in Northwich [1] He entered the salt trade in 1842 when he started a shipping and lighting business along the River Weaver to the ports in ...

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  9. Hallein Salt Mine - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 47.667049°N 13.090339°E. Entrance to Salt Mine. The Hallein Salt Mine, also known as Salzbergwerk Dürrnberg, is an underground salt mine located in the Dürrnberg plateau above Hallein, Austria. The mine has been worked for over 2600 years since the time of the Celtic tribes and earlier. It helped ensure nearby Salzburg would ...