The salt is 300 million years old – the mine, just over 50. The main tunnels are 20 feet high and 45 feet wide. Heavy equipment comes down in pieces and is assembled on-site.

Morton Salt Mine runs about 3 miles in length under Lake Erie. Ricky Rhodes As part of the tour, Rhodes got to explore what goes on above ground, including the huge piles of salt that lie there.

With Grand Saline's 41st annual Salt Festival takes place this weekend, Morton kicked off events with a rare tour of the working mine. Louis DeLuca/MBR GRAND SALINE - This is not your average lift.

His great-grandfather drove mules as an early salt miner in the area. Bucci’s father, Joe Bucci Sr., negotiated mineral rights for the old mine nearby and in 1997 co-founded the current mine ...

Ultimately, the mine shaft itself plunges about 2,300 feet — the deepest salt mine in North America. All 17 #Cargill Miners are now out! All are safe! — Tompkins DoER ...

"We live and die by the weather," said Joe Bucci Jr., environmental manager for American Rock Salt Co., which mines a sprawling seam of salt south of Rochester that was left from a sea that dried ...