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The 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge Khewra Salt Mines Railway track laid during the British era is used to bring salt out of the mine in rail cars. [35] Khewra salt is Pakistan's best known rock salt. [11] It is used for cooking, as bath salt, as brine [30] and as a raw material for many industries, including a soda ash plant set up by AkzoNobel in ...
This list of mines in South Africa is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
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.
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.
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 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.
It is stated that when Alexander's army stopped here for rest, the horses started licking the stones. One of his soldiers took notice of it and when he tasted the rock stone, it was salty thus leading to the discovery of the mines. Bahadurkhel mine: Salt Bahadur Khel: Ghani Salt Mine: Salt Warcha: Ghani Mines Pvt Ltd 1963–present Warcha salt ...