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Detroit salt mine: Wayne: 1906– salt Domtar mine: Kent: 1860–1999: gypsum ... List of mines in Michigan. Add languages ...
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. [3]
The Detroit salt mine has mined rock salt from beneath the Detroit metropolitan area since 1906. [2] Brine recovered from wells in the Michigan basin has been used as a commercial source of potassium salts, bromine, iodine, calcium chloride, and magnesium salts. [3]
Copper mines in Michigan (16 P) ... Detroit salt mine; Domtar mine; E. Eagle Mine (Michigan) J. Jackson Mine; M. Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company; Q. Quincy Mine
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]
The Fairport Harbor mine owned by Morton Salt is located 30 mi (48 km) to the east. [ 13 ] Detroit, Michigan , 1,100 feet (340 m) beneath which the Detroit Salt Company's 1,500-acre (6 km 2 ) subterranean complex extends [ 14 ]
A closed rock salt mine belonging to Brazilian petrochemical giant Braskem partially collapsed Sunday in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio, the city's civil defense authority said. It quoted ...
Cargill Salt (formerly Diamond Crystal) operates a large solution salt mine and evaporation facility in St. Clair. This is the only plant in the United States that produces Alberger salt, which is especially prized in the fast food industry because of its higher volume (due to its unique shape) and lower sodium content (for a given volume, not ...