Gallery: Venture Into a Surreal Salt Mine 2,000 Feet Below Lake Erie
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The mine's main work site sits three miles out beneath Lake Erie. To get there, workers ride gas-powered golf carts down a long, dark tunnel.
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A vein off the main corridor of the Morton salt mine in Fairport Harbor, Ohio.
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Workers stand in a vein that will soon be mined at Morton Salt's mine in Fairport Harbor, Ohio.
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Front loaders carry chunks of salt to a feeder machine that crushes them into finer pieces.
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A continuous mining machine in the Morton Salt Mine in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. The company is discontinuing the process of continuous mining.
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A tunnel inside the Morton Salt Mine in Fairport Harbor, Ohio.
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A front end loader hauls road salt that has been dyed blue. The salt is stored in the open air before it's loaded into freighters and shipped.
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Dyed blue road salt.
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Road salt is stored in piles above ground at the Morton Salt Mine in Fairport Harbor, Ohio.
