But extracting the coveted salt means descending into dark caves, then blasting and carrying heavy rock. Faizan Panjwani: The problem is the massive size of the blocks that come from the mine.

Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has been exclusively mining for rock salt, which is most commonly used to melt snow and ice on roads. The mine does not allow people other than ...

It's not as processed as table salt, but there are normally no extra chemicals added, and its natural minerals stay intact. Rock salt is different. In certain regions of the world, buried hundreds ...

The rock salt mine in Loulé, recently featured on the TV programme 'Portugal with Michael Portillo', is to become an art gallery for a ...

This deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka-Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. Spread over nine levels, it has 300 km of galleries with works of art, altars, and statues sculpted in the salt, ...

The Wieliczka and Bochnia salt mines are located on the same geological rock salt deposit in southern Poland. Situated close to each other, they were worked in parallel and continuously from the 13th ...

A new study by the NYC Department of Environmental Preservation says high salt levels could force the shut down of Westchester County reservoirs.