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The mine taps under Lake Erie into the F 1 unit of the Salina Formation, which is more than 70 feet (21 m) high in the area. [4] [5] According to mine manager Bob Supko, it is unusual for a salt mine to be located in an urban area (downtown Cleveland), but it keeps supply close to Cargill's business. [6]
IMB, the Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven detector, was a nucleon decay experiment and neutrino observatory located in a Morton Salt company's Fairport mine on the shore of Lake Erie in the United States 600 meters underground.
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 ...
The Irish moved from Whiskey Island when better employment and housing opportunities became available and except for a Depression-era Hooverville, Whiskey Island was left largely to the railroads, a salt mine owned by Cargill, and the set of four large Hulett ore unloaders [2] at the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, which when built in 1911 was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. [4]
CLEVELAND– Since its discovery in 1992, the wreckage of a schooner 20 miles north of Cleveland in Lake Erie has never been positively identified. Located beneath 70 feet of water, the wreckage ...
Adventure mine: Ontonagon: 1850–1920 ... Detroit salt mine: Wayne: 1906– salt ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
The thickness of the Salina Group varies greatly within the two basins, ranging from 84 feet in the southwestern corner of Michigan to an estimated 5,000 feet in that state's Gladwin County. [3] This formation is of economic importance for salt mining, oil reservoir creation, [4] gypsum mining, [5] and potential natural gas storage. [6]
During the recent snowstorm -- the biggest by far this winter for the Erie region -- the city of Erie tried a different approach to clearing streets. Salt before snow: How Erie approached ...