About — Detroit Salt Company. The Detroit Salt Company, LLC, has owned and operated Michigan's only rock salt mine since 1997. This privately held business was acquired by The Kissner Group in 2010 and is as rooted in southeast Michigan as the mine itself. The mine is a thriving Detroit business, supplying its local and national customers ...
Water area in the foreground shows where buildings of Canadian Industries Ltd., are sinking after collapse of an old salt mine 1,000 feet below the surface. Slow sinking of buildings continues today. Detroit can be seen in background beyond the Detroit River. (see wire story)
The mine is also noted for a good safety record, especially in the last 10 years. In 2008, the Detroit Salt Mine worked 97,132 injury-free hours and reported a 61 percent reduction in the rate of ...
From the salt mines used to launch the city into economic prosperity at the start of the 20th century to the remnants of hidden caverns used to store liquor during America's Prohibition, explore ...
The mining of rare earth metals, used in everything from smart phones to wind turbines, has long been dominated by China. But as mining of these key elements spreads to countries like Malaysia and Brazil, scientists warn of the dangers of the toxic and radioactive waste generated by the mines and processing plants.
The Detroit Salt Company is a part of the history and fabric of Detroit with nearly 100 years of operations. The gigantic salt mine is located 1,200 feet beneath Detroit's surface, spreads out more than 1,500 …
Opened in 1896, the mine was operated for years by the International Salt Mine Co. until 1983, when it closed. But the mine reopened in 1997, when the Detroit Salt Co. …
Known as Asse II, it is an abandoned salt mine used as a makeshift store for hundreds of thousands of drums of radioactive waste, dumped there during the 1960s and 70s. In 1988, groundwater began ...
A new company, Detroit Rock Salt Company, took over the excavation and completed the job in 1910. The struggle to complete the 1,060 shaft was one of the most impressive engineering feats of its …
Detroit Salt produces 1.7 million tons of salt annually, and will increase to 2.5 million tons if a proposed expansion is approved. The salt is now used exclusively as road de-icer, …
The Secret City 1200 Feet Under Detroit. Featured. News. Nov 13, 2015 Ian Harvey. In 1895, Detroit's salt deposits were discovered, and the Detroit Salt and Manufacturing …
The industry is faced with the dilemma of continuing to mine lower quality ore with increased waste production or seeking new mining sites, often in areas more difficult to access with increased risk of damage to ecosystems. In a recent article, Reuters examines the opportunities and risks involved in the expansion of deep-sea mining.
"We live and die by the weather," said Joe Bucci Jr., environmental manager for American Rock Salt Co., which mines a sprawling seam of salt south of Rochester that was left from a sea that dried ...
The largest salt mine in the UK is at Winsford in Cheshire and is an ideal example of how rock salt is sourced. It's history goes back to the early 1840s when prospectors searching for coal came across the large deposits of rock salt. When the mine was opened it had just two shafts, both of which were 4 square feet and lined with timber.
The Secret City 1200 Feet Under Detroit. Featured. News. Nov 13, 2015 Ian Harvey. In 1895, Detroit's salt deposits were discovered, and the Detroit Salt and Manufacturing Company came about to start digging down into the earth in order to begin mining. They were bought out by Watkins Salt Company. 1914 saw about 8,000 tons …
The parent company of Detroit's "salt city" has been acquired for $2 billion. Stone Canyon Industries Holdings, a California industrial holding company, announced Wednesday it closed its ...
How Detroit Salt Company Mines. Approximately 1,000 feet of rock lie atop the vein of salt. To safely extract the salt from the deep deposits, Detroit Salt Company employs the "room and pillar" system. This method creates massive pillars, which support the mine roof and the overburden separating the mine from the surface.
Deep Geologic Repositories reviews the success stories of underground waste isolation. It focuses on repositories that did, do, and will permanently and safely isolate dangerous materials from the near-surface biosphere. Complementary topics address the isolation capability of average crustal rock, investigations at one …
A shaft at Winsford Rock Salt Mine in Cheshire has been used to store hazardous material since 2004 but permission is due to run out in 2025.
An enormous salt mine hidden under the rolling landscape of Cheshire is being used to store hazardous waste as Britain attempts to meet new European landfill regulations.
While there have been improvements to mining practices in recent years, significant environmental risks remain. Negative impacts can vary from the sedimentation caused by poorly built roads during exploration through to the sediment, and disturbance of water during mine construction. Water pollution from mine waste rock and tailings may …
According to the Detroit Salt Company, 400 million years ago, ocean water flooded into a large basin, an area known as the Michigan Basin.
The existence of rock salt in the Detroit area was discovered in 1895, and the difficult and expensive work of digging a mine shaft began in 1906.
The existence of rock salt in the Detroit area was discovered in 1895. By 1906, the Detroit Salt and Manufacturing Company was ready to tackle the chore of creating a local rock …
A new company, Detroit Rock Salt Company, took over the excavation and completed the job in 1910. The struggle to complete the 1,060 shaft was one of the most impressive …
Beds of salt up to one kilometer thick lie within one or two kilometers of the surface across much of the United States. They were deposited hundreds of millions of years ago by evaporating seas. Room-temperature radioactive waste from the production of nuclear weapons has already been stored in one deposit — in the Waste Isolation Pilot ...
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accidentally released three million gallons of toxic waste into the Colorado waterway during efforts to clean up a long-defunct gold mine.
The Detroit Salt Company has plans to expand its footprint in a southwest Detroit neighborhood, hoping to create a new bagging facility and increasing production of rock salt in the process.
By 1906, Detroit established the Detroit Rock Salt Co. to develop a safe, effective way to mine the salt.
The short answer is no, although there's no difference between the chemical composition of rock salt and table salt. Wayne State University geologist Dave Lowrie says the salt beneath Detroit is "remarkably pure.". Lowrie says he has been inside the mine and has brought back samples to use in his classes and labs.
TechSalt's mission is to explore and commercialize the rock salt mineral resource at the Campina de Cima Mine. We pretend to reuse the mining space in an innovative way, contribuiting to the dissemination and promotion of Earth Sciences, Mining Industry and Art.
Discover Detroit Salt Mine in Detroit, Michigan: Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.
Salt lingers in the air, and miners swear it does wonders for their sinuses. "I've always considered it coming down to a health spa every day," miner John Goho said with a smile. But salt mining is a serious, sometimes dangerous business, practiced in this western New York countryside since the days of mules and pickaxes more than a …
Interesting Detroit Salt Mine Facts. How deep is the mine? Approximately 1160 ft. straight down. If the mine were a building, how would it compare to other buildings? What does 1160 ft. look like? If the mine shaft were a building, it would rank among the world's tallest buildings. It would be close to the Empire State Building, which is 1260 ...
When the Retsof Mine was abandoned in 1994, 275 miners were without work. In 1997, several New York State businessmen started a new company named American Rock Salt. This was the first new salt mine in the country in 40 years. The Hampton Corners Mine, 10 mi./16 km. from the old Retsof mine, is considered one of the …
The parent company of the enormous salt mine 1,200 feet below Detroit has been acquired by a California industrial holding firm for $2 billion.
The disaster caused by the instability of rock salt mines in Maceió, Brazil, is the largest ongoing worldwide socio-environmental disaster in urban areas and has already affected approximately 60,000 families directly who needed to be relocated. To assess the negative impacts caused by this disaster, a Group Decision-Making (GDM) model was …
A major emphasis is to minimize waste, or salt's "bounce and scatter." One way of doing that is to dampen the salt with water before it is spread on the highway. Pre-wetting …
