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Hutchinson Salt [11] consists of repeating beds of salt, anhydrite, and gray shale, totaling up to 300 feet (91 m). The unit is present in much of central Kansas and north-central Oklahoma. The unit is present in much of central Kansas and north-central Oklahoma.
Compass Minerals’ Salt Segment mines, produces, processes and distributes sodium chloride and magnesium chloride in North America and the U.K. The segment’s largest business is highway deicing, which primarily sells bulk rock salt to states, provinces, counties, municipalities and road maintenance contractors for ice control on public roadways.
Zechstein dolomites crop out near the coast of County Durham, England where they are known as the Magnesian Limestone. Just above the base of the Zechstein formation is a fairly thin layer of shale, or slate, where it has been metamorphized, known as the kupferschiefer for its high copper content.
The pre-salt layer was formed in restricted basins in the South Atlantic due to the break-up of Gondwana and arid climates. The pre-salt layer is a diachronous series of geological formations on the continental shelves of extensional basins formed after the break-up of Gondwana, characterized by the deposition of thick layers of evaporites, mostly salt.
The South Bay Salt Works is a salt factory in southern San Diego near Chula Vista, in the South Bay region of San Diego County, California. Initially operating under the name La Punta Salt Works operations dating back to at least 1871, for a period of time it was the sole supplier of salt for Southern California .
The Windsor Salt Mine had a difficult start, with a financial crisis in 1897. By 1910, the Canadian Salt Company, as it was known since 1901, prospered sufficiently to purchase the Saginaw Lumber and Salt Company. Shortly before 1928, The Canadian Salt Company moved its operation to Sandwich and shuttered its older plant.
Boone's Lick State Historic Site is located in Missouri, United States, four miles east of Arrow Rock. [4] The park was established in 1960 around one of the saltwater springs that was used in the early 19th century.
Slabs of salt from the mines of Taoudenni stacked on the quayside at the port of Mopti. Taoudenni (also Taoudeni, Taoudénit, Taudeni, Berber languages: Tawdenni, Arabic: تودني) is a remote salt mining center in the desert region of northern Mali, 664 km (413 mi) north of Timbuktu. It is the capital of Taoudénit Region. [1]