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One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie

by 1659447091 on 3/28/2026, 11:07:15 PM

https://apnews.com/article/cleveland-salt-mine-winter-road-0daf091e3d56f65766bcf6a597683893

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by: wewewedxfgdf

Reminds me of the Lake Peigneur disaster in 1980 in Louisiana when an oil drilling rig entered a salt mine located under the lake.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PcWRO2pyLA8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PcWRO2pyLA8</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CmHpNTYYWcM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CmHpNTYYWcM</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p_iZr2-Coqc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=p_iZr2-Coqc</a>

3/31/2026, 8:31:01 AM


by: joecool1029

The largest salt mine in the world is under Lake Huron: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.compassminerals.com&#x2F;who-we-are&#x2F;locations&#x2F;goderich-ontario&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.compassminerals.com&#x2F;who-we-are&#x2F;locations&#x2F;goderic...</a>

3/31/2026, 6:31:37 AM


by: SilverElfin

What happens when they run out of salt? All the salt they put on the roads must end up back in the lakes but not in a way that is as easy to extract, right?

3/31/2026, 6:29:52 AM


by: therealdrag0

My initial reaction was fear.<p>But then I wondered if modern mining engineering is a solved problem? In that they mostly know how to make safe tunnels?<p>Then I looked up how deep Erie is and it’s pretty shallow, with an average depth of 62 ft!

3/31/2026, 6:46:35 AM


by: cr1895

Would highly recommend the book &quot;Salt&quot; by Mark Kurlansky. I never realized how influential salt was to the course of human history.

3/31/2026, 6:31:44 AM