Salt may appear in veins, as does coal. Veins are the original bedded salt deposits. Salt also may be found in domes, which were formed when Earth pressures forced salt up through cracks in the bedrock from depths as great as 30,000 or 40,000 feet; they resemble plugs of almost-circular shape a few hundred yards to a mile across. Some domes occur close to the surface. Both domes and veins are mined in a similar way. Most domes in North America are located in the south from Alabama to Texas with many out under water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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. The shafts also are used to deliver a constant supply of fresh air to the miners while they work hundreds to thousands of feet below the surface. Most mine shafts are lined with a concrete wall called a shaft liner.
Salt is mined by the room and pillar method. It is removed in a checkerboard pattern to leave permanent, solid salt pillars for mine roof support. Usually 45 to 65 percent of the salt is removed. The room height may average 18 feet in a bedded deposit to 100 feet in a dome mine.
Normally, the first operation is undercutting. Large machines cut a slot 10 or more feet in depth across the bottom of a solid salt wall. This leaves a smooth floor for picking up the salt after blasting.
Next, small holes are drilled into the salt wall to a depth of 10 or more feet and explosives are loaded into the drilled holes. After the work shift, the explosives are set off electrically. Several hundred to several thousand tons of rock salt are blasted and fall onto the mine floor.
Equipment is used to load and haul the salt to machines that crush and feed the salt onto a conveyor belt. The lumps are conveyed to a series of stations for crushing and additional sizing of the lumps. The salt is then placed in a storage bin to await hoisting to the surface.
The above ground processing of the rock salt consists of screening the mined salt into various marketable sizes by sorting through mechanically operated screens. When separated, each size is conveyed to its individual storage bin to await packaging for shipment or to be loaded as bulk salt into railroad cars, trucks, river barges or lake boats for shipment to customers.
I appreciate much the vote of confidence, however I must respectfully decline. I am about to publish a few new papers and am extraordinarily busy as of late.
I am content to come here every day and shitpost for y'all though.
Yeah, same. I work at a gym for 40 hours plus I do another 20-30 in game development research and optimization systems. Same reason I haven't offered. Gotta admit, I have thought about how entertaining it would be to do so
Nice. That's the only problem with being a conservative -- we've all got important jobs to do and we do them well, some say we are the very best. Believe me, tremendous people. But we don't have time to mod. That's okay, we'll get it done under budget and under time. So I'll probably sue Rosie because it would be fun -- I'd love to take some money out of her fat-ass pockets.
I wish I could say I was a conservative, but I think for now I'm satisfied for being moderate right/right-leaning indepedent, anyway. Still 100 percent agree with you!
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Salt may appear in veins, as does coal. Veins are the original bedded salt deposits. Salt also may be found in domes, which were formed when Earth pressures forced salt up through cracks in the bedrock from depths as great as 30,000 or 40,000 feet; they resemble plugs of almost-circular shape a few hundred yards to a mile across. Some domes occur close to the surface. Both domes and veins are mined in a similar way. Most domes in North America are located in the south from Alabama to Texas with many out under water in the Gulf of Mexico.
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. The shafts also are used to deliver a constant supply of fresh air to the miners while they work hundreds to thousands of feet below the surface. Most mine shafts are lined with a concrete wall called a shaft liner.
Salt is mined by the room and pillar method. It is removed in a checkerboard pattern to leave permanent, solid salt pillars for mine roof support. Usually 45 to 65 percent of the salt is removed. The room height may average 18 feet in a bedded deposit to 100 feet in a dome mine.
Normally, the first operation is undercutting. Large machines cut a slot 10 or more feet in depth across the bottom of a solid salt wall. This leaves a smooth floor for picking up the salt after blasting.
Next, small holes are drilled into the salt wall to a depth of 10 or more feet and explosives are loaded into the drilled holes. After the work shift, the explosives are set off electrically. Several hundred to several thousand tons of rock salt are blasted and fall onto the mine floor.
Equipment is used to load and haul the salt to machines that crush and feed the salt onto a conveyor belt. The lumps are conveyed to a series of stations for crushing and additional sizing of the lumps. The salt is then placed in a storage bin to await hoisting to the surface.
The above ground processing of the rock salt consists of screening the mined salt into various marketable sizes by sorting through mechanically operated screens. When separated, each size is conveyed to its individual storage bin to await packaging for shipment or to be loaded as bulk salt into railroad cars, trucks, river barges or lake boats for shipment to customers.
This guy should be one
I appreciate much the vote of confidence, however I must respectfully decline. I am about to publish a few new papers and am extraordinarily busy as of late.
I am content to come here every day and shitpost for y'all though.
Yeah, same. I work at a gym for 40 hours plus I do another 20-30 in game development research and optimization systems. Same reason I haven't offered. Gotta admit, I have thought about how entertaining it would be to do so
Nice. That's the only problem with being a conservative -- we've all got important jobs to do and we do them well, some say we are the very best. Believe me, tremendous people. But we don't have time to mod. That's okay, we'll get it done under budget and under time. So I'll probably sue Rosie because it would be fun -- I'd love to take some money out of her fat-ass pockets.
I wish I could say I was a conservative, but I think for now I'm satisfied for being moderate right/right-leaning indepedent, anyway. Still 100 percent agree with you!
I hope that those new papers of yours are much more original than your cut and paste from the good folk at Morton Salt aka K+S AG Germany ;)
Hahaha yes, they are :)
Normally, I cite my sources, but it seemed appropriate to simply steal from the Morton website since Morton has gone full BLM woke retard lately.
See this: https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-salt-statement-on-racial-social-injustice/
Oh my god, even a salt company has to spew this garbage... what a fucked up year.
I'm just razzing you. Don't take me too seriously.
Oh I like the way you talk. 🌎🤡👌🏻
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Wow! So it’s all sorted, there’s no grinding of the salt? At least at the mining stage? Neat.
Mmmmmmm salt
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Classic
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