Morton Salt Mine

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This first underground rock-salt mine, the only mine ever dug in the community, was completed in 1931. Today's mine is 750 feet below the surface in a salt dome that measures 20,000 feet from top to bottom and 1.5 miles in diameter. Temperature in the mine remains roughly eighty degrees year round. At current rates of production, the Grand Saline mine has sufficient resources to supply the entire United States with salt for thousands of years.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Salt
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Coordinates:   32°39'28"N   95°42'14"W
This article was last modified 15 years ago