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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWRO2pyLA8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWRO2pyLA8</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmHpNTYYWcM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmHpNTYYWcM</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_iZr2-Coqc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/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://www.compassminerals.com/who-we-are/locations/goderich-ontario/" rel="nofollow">https://www.compassminerals.com/who-we-are/locations/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 "Salt" by Mark Kurlansky. I never realized how influential salt was to the course of human history.
3/31/2026, 6:31:44 AM