Thread: The friendly way this site is run.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yup....Natural gas comes to mind.

There’s a big archive of old government paper records in a former salt mine in Arkansas or Missouri. Can’t remember exactly where.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yup....Natural gas comes to mind.

I was thinking about something much different than Natural Gas--

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/articl...ste-with-wipp/

We have the Morton salt mine, here in Cleveland. It goes for miles under lake Erie.

They say corrosion isn't a problem, as long as it doesn't leave the mine. Once it gets out of the constant climate that the mine offers, is when its ate alive..

My dad grew up in Retsof New York and I guess about the only thing there was the salt mine. Anyway, in '89 I went to a family reunion up there and it was August and there was a yard for lack of a better term... I think that's what they called it but it was probably as big as 50 football fields. It was absolutely enormous and you could see the bulldozer pushing the salt up to the top of the mound which from the road looked like Mount McKinley. The bulldozer looked like a speck up on top of it and he told me that by springtime you couldn't fill a bucket with the salt left in that yard. I'm trying to remember. He said they would take an elevator down and it would go down like I think half a mile under the Earth. I met my cousin Terry up there and apparently he drove the train for the mine or something like that. A few years later a foreign company bought the mine and mined too close to the river or something and flooded the mine.

The Salina salt formation is fairly shallow in up state NY and West into Mi.

I lived in Holland MI which was Heinz first pickle plant.

In winter no rock salt was used. Salt water was pumped from shallow wells and sprinkled on the roads.

Interesting! A bit of research has shown the salt caverns, or 'domes' used to store natural gas are not the result of salt mining, but are naturally-occurring.

Talk about off-topic! I blame it on Spendur!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Interesting!

Talk about off-topic! I blame it on Spendur!

It did spice up the forum, however!

I suppose part of my point in the OP?

What were we talking about???

Paul--We were reflecting on what terrific folks we all are and how the moderators stay out of our way when we're not