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  2. Sifto Canada - Wikipedia

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    Sifto was founded by Sam Platt who was prospecting for oil in 1866, and instead of oil encountered rock salt in Goderich Harbour on Lake Huron. Sifto Canada was formed in 1950 and the company was acquired by the United States chemical company Compass Minerals in the 1990s. The Goderich mine developed into the largest salt mine in Canada and ...

  3. Brine mining - Wikipedia

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    Today, salt from groundwater brines is generally a byproduct of the process of extracting other dissolved substances from brines and constitutes only a small part of world salt production. In the United States, salt is recovered from surface brine at the Great Salt Lake, Utah, and from a shallow subsurface brine at Searles Lake, California.

  4. Salina Group - Wikipedia

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    Oil and gas exploration facilitated the discovery of salt during the 1860s; however, it was not until 1886 when the Cleveland Rolling Mill was drilling its second natural gas well that it hit brine. The salt was located at a depth of approximately 1,900 feet. [14] By the 1890s, brine wells were drilled and operating in Cleveland.

  5. Windsor Salt - Wikipedia

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    Windsor Salt is a national salt mining, processing, and distribution company based in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada. [1] It operates salt mines in Pugwash, Nova Scotia (the Windsor Salt Pugwash Mine) and Windsor, Ontario (the Windsor Salt Mine ). [ 2 ]

  6. Windsor Salt Mine - Wikipedia

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    The Windsor Salt Mine currently operates two locations in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The first is the Ojibway Mine at 200 Morton Drive in Windsor, established in 1955, and is owned by The Canadian Salt Company, Limited. The facility has 250 employees, earns roughly $75–99 million a year, producing road and mining salt. [1]

  7. Snow prep: 4,000 gallons of salt brine made per hour in Mt ...

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    MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) — Four thousand gallons: that’s how much salt brine Mt. Juliet Public Works is producing per hour ahead of Friday’s predicted winter storm. From pretreating roads to ...

  8. Brine pipeline - Wikipedia

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    A brine pipeline is a pipeline to transport brine. It is a common way to transport salt from salt mines , salt wells and sink works to the places of salt evaporation ( salterns , salt pans ). Brine pipelines are also used in the oil and gas industries, and to remove salts and contaminants from water supplies.

  9. Brine - Wikipedia

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    Brine (or briny water) is a high-concentration solution of salt (typically sodium chloride or calcium chloride) in water.In diverse contexts, brine may refer to the salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% (a typical concentration of seawater, on the lower end of that of solutions used for brining foods) up to about 26% (a typical saturated solution, depending on temperature).