To enter a salt mine, miners go down a shaft from the Earth’s surface to the salt bed. There are two shafts in each Morton mine – one for personnel and one to lower materials and equipment into the mine, as well as to hoist the mined rock salt to the surface.

At our mines, salt is mined hundreds of feet underground and then crushed into smaller sizes. It is then hoisted to the surface for further processing. Salt from our underground mines is mainly used for road salt needed during the winter season.

Sep 27, 2016 · About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine...

May 12, 2016 · About 2,000 feet (609 metres) under Lake Erie, 30 miles (48 km) east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbour, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine.

Morton Salt is an American food company producing salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural, and road/highway use. Based in Chicago, [1] the business is North America's leading producer and marketer of salt. It is a subsidiary of holding …

Jan 17, 2019 · Morton officials oversee the gigantic salt dome sitting 750 feet underneath the town of Grand Saline. Tours are no longer available, but the video shows the visitor how the Morton Salt company excavates the salt from the underground dome and gets it to your table.

Morton Salt The Weeks Island underground mine produces 2,000,000 tons of salt annually. Current mining operations are on the 1,500′ and 1,600’ Levels, however all product was processed, stored, and hoisted from original facilities on the mined out 1,200′ Level.

May 3, 2016 · Ohio produces 5 million tons of rock salt every year, much of it mined by Morton Salt. The company opened a mine in Fairport Harbor, 30 miles east of Cleveland, in 1958. Today the mine...

Morton Salt has nine production facilities and covers a broader geographic footprint than any other North American deicing salt supplier. Our rock salt production network extends from Fairport, Ohio and Ojibway, Ontario in the north to Weeks Island, Louisiana and Grand Saline, Texas in the south.

In a ceremony on Aug. 27, the Society designated the Morton Salt Mine in Painesville, Ohio as the latest historic site in recognition of its importance as the home of the Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven detector, the world’s first kiloton-scale underground neutrino observatory.