HEADS UP CLEVELAND– A potentially dangerous situation has shut down production at the Cargill Salt Mine located on and under Lake Erie. The more than 50-year-old mine rests 1800 feet below the waters of Lake Erie and 4 miles from the shore. As part of the Great Eastern Salt Basin, the mine is an engineering marvel and the only mine in the United States that’s located in a city, not far from downtown Cleveland. Thousands of tons of salt is extracted from the 300 million year old salt basin and then brought to the surface on conveyor belts. The majority of the rock salt is then used as a deicing agent for roads across Ohio and many other Midwest states. But operations suddenly shut down Monday, and workers were sent home after a sensor in a “mined” tunnel detected a geological shift. fox8/2013/08/20/salt-mine-under-lake-erie-shut-down-as-precaution/ Mark Klein, Cargill Director of Communications said, “We just thought it was the prudent thing to do, to check out what this is about.” According to Mr. Klein, about 100 miners who work three different shifts under the lake were told to stay home this week with pay
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:39:33 +0000
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