A few pics of the salt mine....Will make a couple of posts to show a few more pics...

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

The first walkway entrance leading to the mine. This walkway is approx. twenty feet from the mancage that brings you underground.[attachment 28429 DSC02084.JPG]
The first drift opening and beginning point where we all proceed from. The vehicles are man transport buses. Jeeps, tractors and gators are the main means of transport to and from a jobsite.[attachment 28433 DSC02014.JPG]
This pic shows one of about a dozen conveyor belt lines. These carry the salt to #1 shaft where it is hoisted to surface.[attachment 28434 DSC02074.JPG]
This is the service truck I drive. It is sitting in a bay entrance at our maintenance shop. The lighting is better here, hence the clearer pic. I drive roughly twenty to thirty kilometers per shift in doing my job.[attachment 28435 DSC02069.JPG]
This is called an LHD (load-haul-dump). There are five of these machines underground of which three are operating twenty hours a day. These, as with most all equipment, are cut into peices to be lowered underground and then re-assembled once they are there. Incidentally, the tires for these machines stand over six feet tall.[attachment 28438 DSC02066.JPG]
Here's one dumping it's load into a feederbreaker. Had a few clearer pics but the kB's were too high. See ya for one more round of pics !

 

[david(tx)]

i live about 8 miles from a salt mine at grand saline,tx.don't know how deep it is but they run some good sized front end loaders there.think it's been going for well over a hundred years and they talk like it could go a couple of hundred more.

 

[VT Dave]

that floor under the LHD pic looks like concrete. Is it? or just a painted salt floor??

Dave

 

[Royal]

back in the 40's and 50's a lot of schools would take tours through the Detroit salt mines. I understand they stopped that many years ago and I missed out. Wish I had gone

How deep are they? Are these the same ones? I understand that they are the biggest salt mines on the planet

 

[Sunny]

these pictures, especially the fifth one! He calls it a really big "dump chine".

Your posts brought something to me that I have never seen before! thanks so much for sharing with us!

 

[WillyP]

n/t

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

n/t

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

It would be too difficult to get anything to sit level without it. Thousands of bags of concrete mix. Literally !!

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

and met in the middle under the Detroit river. Of course a barrier of salt was left by both sides. We are both one-thousand feet deep and the quality of salt at our sites is the best there is. And yes, they are a couple of the biggest mines to be had. And could still go on for yrs. to come. Too bad you didn't make that tour. They are few and far between now.

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

n/t

 

[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

kill your lights in a remote spot of the mine. Years back a newbie went for a spin on a tractor during his break and forgot to bring his miners lamp. Well, he hit a bump and lost his lights in an old area and it took two eight man crews six hours to find him. Poor guy was scared $hitle$$!