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  2. 12 Rare Photos That Take You Inside an Amazing Salt Mine Hidden 2,000

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  3. Venture Into a Surreal Salt Mine 2,000 Feet Below Lake Erie

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  4. 12 Rare Photos That Take You Inside an Amazing Salt Mine Hidden 2,000

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  6. EXPLORING THE SALT MINES UNDER LAKE ERIE

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  1. Step Inside the Cargill Salt Mines Under Lake Erie

    The mines, located underneath Lake Erie, harvest about 12,000 tons of salt every day. By Jacob DeSmit. On Whiskey Island, a large, cage-like hoist travels 1,800 feet beneath Lake Erie at a four-minute pace — a rapid trip that feels like a hellish eternity to an outsider. For Cargill employees, the descent, which can reach a top speed of 500 ...

  2. 12 Rare Photos That Take You Inside an Amazing Salt Mine Hidden 2,000

    About 2,000 feet (609 metres) under Lake Erie, 30 miles (48 km) east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbour, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbour Morton Salt Mine has been exclusively mining for rock salt, which is most commonly used to melt snow and ice on roads.

  3. Underground Salt Mine In Ohio: Cargill's Salt Mine

    About 1,800 ft. below Lake Erie just offshore of Cleveland is Cargill's Salt Mine—and it truly looks like another planet. If you've ever wondered where all the rock salt that covers Ohio's streets in the wintertime comes from, this incredible salt mine under Lake Erie is the answer. Let's explore this intriguing Lake Erie salt mine.

  4. Go under Lake Erie, inside the Cargill salt mine

    CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Deep beneath Lake Erie is a massive salt mine, stretching from Edgewater Beach to Burke Lakefront Airport and north about 3 miles. Cargill Deicing Technology extracts as much as ...

  5. Photos of the Salt Mine Below Lake Erie

    About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has ...

  6. Venture Into a Surreal Salt Mine 2,000 Feet Below Lake Erie

    A lot of that salt is mined in Ohio, pulled from the remains of massive inland sea that dried up more than 400 million years ago. This vast deposit lies 2,000 feet below Lake Erie. Enormous ...

  7. The Dark And Mysterious World Of The Morton Salt Mine: A Journey ...

    The Morton Salt Mine is one of the most remarkable places in the world. It is a hidden world that few have had the chance to explore, a world that lies deep beneath the surface of Lake Erie, about ...

  8. The Cargill salt mine beneath Lake Erie

    Go 1,800 feet below Lake Erie into a network of mining tunnels that spans nearly 3 miles away from the Cleveland shoreline. Cargill mines nearly 4 million to...

  9. The salt mine beneath Lake Erie (teaser)

    See the other world of the Cargill salt mine, nearly 1,700 feet below Lake Erie. For the full mine tour video, visit Rockthelake.com

  10. Photos: Inside the Salt Mines 2,000 Feet Below Lake Erie, Just Outside

     You probably don't know that vast salt mines operated by Morton Salt are sitting beneath Lake Erie in Fairport Harbor, just about a half an hour outside of Cleveland. And even if you knew ...

  11. 12 rare photos inside an unusual, beautiful mine that's hidden 2,000

    Morton Salt Mine runs about three miles under Lake Erie. Advertisement As part of the tour, Rhodes got to explore what goes on above ground, including the huge piles of salt that lie there.

  12. 12 rare photos inside an unusual, beautiful mine that's hidden 2,000

    About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has ...

  13. The Whiskey Island Salt Mine In Ohio Underneath Lake Erie

    Whiskey Island's Salt Mine is a 12 square-mile mine beneath Lake Erie you've likely never even heard of. Full of sparkling pillars of rock salt, it's truly a whole other world. Most people don't realize that Ohio is actually one of the top exporters of salt in the country. Lake Erie is the shallowest Great Lake.

  14. Buckeye Beat: Lake Erie's salt mines

    The 12-square-mile mine lies just offshore of downtown Cleveland. Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with a depth of about 56 feet near Cleveland - the salt mine lies about 1800 feet under the lake. A system of conveyor belts and elevators bring the salt to the surface. Left behind are gigantic pillars of salt - these support ...

  15. Inside a salt mine under Lake Erie

    Todd Meany goes underground to the salt mines

  16. Exploring the Enigmatic Depths of the Morton Salt Mine Beneath Lake Erie

    The Morton Salt Mine is one of the most remarkable places in the world. It is a hidden world that few have had the chance to explore, a world that lies deep beneath the surface of Lake Erie, about ...

  17. A Secret Salt Mine Chemistry Article for Students

    HIDDEN WORLD. The Morton salt mine under Lake Erie is the deepest salt mine in North America. More than 1 million tons of salt per year comes from the mine, which has been in operation since the late 1950s. The mine spans nearly 13 square km (5 square mi)—about the size of 2,500 football fields.

  18. Exploring the Salt Mines Under Lake Erie

    In October I led a trip with Geologic Cognition Society into the salt mines almost 2000 feet under Lake Erie. This was in preparation for our exhibit at SPACES gallery in Cleveland Ohio which opened on January 29th. Details about the show are here. This deposit is over 300 million years old from when the Great Lakes region and much of upper ...

  19. Fox 8 Explores Salt Mine Below Lake Erie

    For half a century, Cargill Deicing Technology has been mining salt from underneath Lake Erie. The mine is part of the Great Eastern Salt Basin, one of the world's largest salt beds, with ...

  20. You can thank Ohio's tropical sea for your winter road salt

    Right now, we are in the Whiskey Island Mine, 1,800 feet below Lake Erie. And we are mining salt for the purposes of road deicing. Last year, we mined a little over 3 million tons in a pretty mild ...

  21. After deadly accident Cargill will shut down salt mine, but company

    One of three Cargill mines in the U.S. that produce rock salt used to deice winter roads, Avery produces about 2 million tons of salt a year — roughly the same amount as its Lansing mine beneath Cayuga Lake. The other Cargill salt mine under Lake Erie near Cleveland produces about 3 million tons a year. The Avery mine employs about 200 people.

  22. A rare look under Lake Erie in the Morton Salt Mine

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  23. Salty Disposition

    It's estimated the mine has between 50 and 100 years of salt reserves remaining under Lake Erie. Ohio is the fifth-largest rock salt producer in the county, with the Cargill salt mine producing the lion's share. Share this In This Issue. This story was published as part of Transcript, ODOT's employee newsletter. Read other stories from this ...