salt mining
Underground sodium chloride harvesting
Salt mining is the extraction of salt deposits from underground mines, as opposed to evaporating seawater or brine.
Salt has been mined since ancient times, with some mines operating for centuries.
The term appears in internet slang as a joking description of activities that generate strong emotional reactions—harvesting the "salt" (bitterness or frustration) of angry people online: I'm just here for the salt mining.
- WieliczkaPolish salt mine town
- white goldPrecious metal alloy, silvery
- haliteCrystalline sodium chloride ore
- Dead SeaLandlocked hypersaline lake
- brineWater saturated with sodium
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- Andean economyquinoa, coca, coca leaves, alpaca wool, potatoes
- primary industriesforestry, ranching, quarrying, aquaculture, lumbering
- Appalachian economycoal barons, company towns, scrip, black lung, timber industry
- Great Salt Lakebrine shrimp, hypersaline, salinity, Jordan River, causeway
- Kentucky historyDaniel Boone, Henry Clay, statehood, Cumberland Gap, border state
- medieval craftsblacksmith, blacksmithing, goldsmith, silversmith, goldwork
salt miningsalt spreading
Applying de-icer to roads
landfilling · land reclamation · planting · cultivation · restoration