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Salt Mining in Cheshire The Daily Mail, Saturday 31 January 2004 pp 26-27 “A few inches of snow and everything slides to a halt. But don’t blame the three men working in Britain’s only salt mine - 100 miles of incredible caverns beneath rural Cheshire ... TRUE GRIT” by Robert Hardman. This was the title of a very interesting article on salt mining in Cheshire. It appears they never throw out any old equipment. One section of tunnel is a graveyard for old diggers. “There is no point in taking them out so we leave them down here when we’ve finished with them “, Mr Sheen explains. There is very little corrosion as the salt air is so dry. A mining museum in the making? _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo