As gritting trucks work around the clock during the first cold snap of the year, spare a thought for the miners who dig the salt ... belts around the tunnels. He said: “This mine has meant ...

Mine manager Doug Doney checks on machinery and crews working underground ... Kilometres of conveyor belts had to be built to move the salt along. In one tunnel, or stope, mining machine ...

“They mined out over 980 acres of salt in this mine,” says Lee Spence, president and CEO of Underground Vaults and Storage, located Hutchinson, Kan. “On a daily basis, they produce right ...

An curved arrow pointing right. An ancient salt mine in Romania's notorious Transylvania region has been transformed into an epic, subterranean amusement park. After almost 2,000 years of mining ...

Salina Turda, located in Turda, Romania, is home to an underground theme park that's nestled inside one of the oldest salt mines in the world. The salt mine, which dates as far back as the 17th ...

The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines illustrate the historic stages of the development of mining techniques in Europe from the 13th to the 20th centuries: both mines have hundreds of kilometers ...

Mine manager Doug Doney checks on machinery and crews working underground. (Rachel Cave/CBC ... Kilometres of conveyor belts had to be built to move the salt along. In one tunnel, or stope, mining ...