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Detroit salt mine. Coordinates: 42.2858°N 83.1497°W. 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.
List of mines in Michigan. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Detroit salt mine: Wayne: 1906– salt
Salt found within the formation. Named by. James Dwight Dana. The Salina Group or Salina Formation is a Late Silurian -age, Stratigraphic unit of sedimentary rock that is found in Northeastern and Midwestern North America. Named for its Halite beds, the phrase "Salina Group" was first used as a descriptive term by James D. Dana in 1863.
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 ...
Michigan Basin. Coordinates: 43°40′N 84°45′W. Geologic map of the Michigan Basin. The Michigan Basin is a geologic basin centered on the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The feature is represented by a nearly circular pattern of geologic sedimentary strata in the area with a nearly uniform structural dip toward the center of ...
Minesota Mine. Native copper on matrix from the Minesota Mine. Size 6.8 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm. / 46.729933°N 89.174933°W / 46.729933; -89.174933. The Minesota Mine is a former copper mine near Rockland, Ontonagon County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The Minesota (the single "n" in the name was a mistake in the ...
Salina Turda. Coordinates: 46.5877084°N 23.7873963°E. Rudolf hall is 80 m long, 50 m wide and 40 m high. [ 1] Salina Turda is a salt mine in the Durgău-Valea Sărată area of Turda, the second largest city in Cluj County, northwest Transylvania. Opened for tourists in 1992, the Salina Turda mine was visited by about 618,000 Romanian and ...
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was initially permitted for eight disposal panels, where drums of transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste is disposed of via burial in an underground salt deposit about ...