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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 ...
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).
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.
Thill Sharif is bordered by mountains to the north, Pindi Saidpur to the south, Awanpur to the east, and Daulatpur to the west. Thill Sharif is surrounded by Sofi shrines. [clarification needed] Thill is located in the Salt Range. The Khewra Salt Mines (کھیوڑہ) are nearby. The immediate area is flat and good for cultivation.
Khewra Salt Mine tunnel (Crystal Valley) The Khewra Salt Mine in Khewra is the second largest salt mine in the world. [40] [41] [42] The mine is famous for its production of pink Khewra salt, often marketed as Himalayan salt, and is a major tourist attraction, drawing up to 250,000 visitors a year. [43]
A US Army Special Operations veteran and drone expert says it's "difficult to believe" the government knows nothing about the mysterious drones.
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.
Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of the standoff said. More than 550 ...