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A salt mine is a mining operation involved in the extraction of rock salt or halite from evaporite deposits.
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The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilos of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency ; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners.
The workprint containing deleted scenes finally turned up in the Hutchinson, Kansas salt mine film depository.
During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.
The salt mine at Wieliczka, the pilgrimage town of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, and Kraków's Old Town are ranked by UNESCO among the most precious sites of world heritage.
" In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action management unit ( 40 CFR 260. 10 ).
Major tourist draws are the Königssee, the salt mine ( with a sound and light show inaugurated in 2007 ), the Kehlsteinhaus and the new Dokumentationszentrum Obersalzberg.
Rock salt is mined intensively at a salt mine in Kłodawa ( this mine alone accounts for about 20 % of domestic production ).
To mine for it would involve disturbing the country's salt flats ( called Salar de Uyuni ), an important natural feature which boosts tourism in the region.
Guntersville was founded by German immigrant John Gunter ( 1765-1835 ) ( the great-grandfather of American humorist Will Rogers ), the wealthy owner of a salt mine in the early 19th century.
Among the lakes is Lake Peigneur, which was formerly a deep freshwater lake until a 1980 disaster involving oil drilling and a salt mine.
* Cargill Salt ( formerly Diamond Crystal ) operates a large solution salt mine and evaporation facility in St. Clair.
The name Grand Saline means " Large Salt " and is based on the large salt deposits and mine located southeast of the city, which Morton Salt company owns and operates, and is what the city is mainly known for.
Opened in 1982, the salt mine and plant is located in Grosse-Île and extracts salt from an underground mine below Grande-Entrée Lagoon, produces 1 million tons of salt, and employs 200 people.
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Preparation of a coordination compound is often accomplished by the simple method of reacting a metal salt with a ligand in a suitable solvent such as an alcohol.
but again, as one will have observed at any restaurant worth its salt, wine should be served in a large, tulip-shaped glass, which is never filled more than half full.
A salt mouthwash is a home treatment for mouth infections and / or injuries, or post extraction, and is made by dissolving a teaspoon of salt in a cup of warm water.
In Tamil Nadu State, it is called ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை and is regularly consumed as a favourite dish, where the greens are steamed, and mashed, with light seasoning of salt, red chillis and cumin.
Abacá rope is very durable, flexible and resistant to salt water damage, allowing its use in hawsers, ship's lines and fishing nets.
Cyclooctadiene and norbornadiene are popular chelating agents, and even ethylene itself is sometimes used as a ligand, for example, in Zeise's salt.
The system in general aims to increase blood pressure by increasing the amount of salt and water the body retains, although angiotensin is also very good at causing the blood vessels to tighten ( a potent vasoconstrictor ).
In chemistry, an alkali (; from Arabic: al-qaly القلي, القالي ) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal element.
The air is passed through a spray of salt solution to dehumidify it, then through a spray of water solution to cool it, then another salt solution to dehumidify it again.
The city is also famous for its production of salt and for its seaweed harvest, which is used for fertilizer in the area.
The Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, is in the northwest and the Makgadikgadi Pans, a large salt pan lies in the north-central area.
The problem of leaks is further aggravated by the fact that many of them involve corrosive salt water.
This is caused by the proximity of Boston Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean, causing a mix of salt and fresh water leaks in the tunnel.
The situation is made worse by road salt spread in the tunnel to melt ice during freezing weather, or brought in by vehicles passing through.
It has been reported that " hundreds of thousands of gallons of salt water are pumped out monthly " in the Big Dig, and a map has been prepared showing " hot spots " where water leakage is especially serious.
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Other industries include sun-dried sea salt in Great Inagua, a wet dock facility in Freeport for repair of cruise ships, and mining of aragonite — a type of limestone with several industrial uses — from the sea floor at Ocean Cay.
Anthony Francis Lucas, an experienced mining engineer and salt driller, drilled a well to find oil at Spindletop Hill.
Aside from hydrocarbons, Iraq ’ s mining industry has been confined to extraction of relatively small amounts of phosphates ( at Akashat ), salt, and sulfur ( near Mosul ).
The materials of economic interest ( aka as ore ) recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash.
The salt collectors were drawn by the shallow waters around the islands that made salt mining a much easier process than in Bermuda.
The village of Hallstatt in Austria, which is known for its long history of salt mining, claims to contain " the oldest industrial pipeline in the world ", dating back to 1595.
In contrast soft rock mining refers to excavation of softer minerals such as salt, coal, or tar sands.
Industrial salt collection started in the 19th century, and big chemical companies such as Péchiney and Solvay founded the ' mining ' city of Salin-de-Giraud.
However, the constant mining of the salt deposits over which the town stands has also resulted in the sometimes gradual, sometimes dramatically pronounced, sinking of various areas of the town.
Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash.
The village is home to fishing, salt mining, and small-scale manufacturing and is situated on the Northumberland Strait at the mouth of the Pugwash River.
He invented the method of mining salt by pumping water into the mine ; when the brine rose to the surface, he would allow the water to evaporate and then he would collect the salt.
There is a long history of stock breeding, leatherwork, and a growing mining sector, including deposits of coal, iron, sulfur, gypsum, rock-salt, lacustrine salt, naphtha, and some small known oil reserves.
Instead, it became an important point of industrial production with particular emphasis on the mining of minerals such as salt.
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