Show Worlds World's Largest Large Salt Sail Mint Min Is Located Near Hear Buffalo Duffalo The largest salt satt mine In the western west ern em world is It located near Buffalo NY The mine is nearly 1100 feet below below be bee beelow low the earths earth's surface The freshness fresh ness of its ft air alt plus Its III natural salt salt- ness ness makes makel it as exhilarating as at Atlantic qty City Workers Worker say that such uch ailments ailment as a head cold a bad case cue of asthma or a hangover are relieved in time jig time simply by descending de des Into the mine Rock salt has baa been produced by this mine since 1684 1984 It is le being worked today at a faster falter rate than ever but it still un has baa a life ille expectancy of another half century or more which gives give some ome idea of its ft size Ize The salt that comes out of the Retsof mine it is not the kind that Is 13 Used in homes home It is used by the chemical and plastics plastic industries Inthe in intha inthe the tha dyeing of clothes clothe the tha refrigeration 0 of food and the manufacture of such uch products ai as steel teel glass paper and ceramics ceramic Inhabitants of Buffalo get their closets direct dfred contact with Retsof salt alt in the winter whiter when truckload after truckload is I spread on the streets to lessen the driving hazards hazard of ice and snow mow Table salt is le not mined It is d dissolved solved piped to tho the surface Inthe Inthe in inthe the form of salt alt brine and then dried |