Tony,
Presumably this is this referring to Salt Union's Winsford Rock Salt
Mine, which supplies the majority of the Uk's road salt? Recent changes
in mining practice; from undercut, drill and blast, to a Joy continuous
miner, have significantly reduced the manpower, but not down to three!
Redundant equipment is not brought out as it would immediately corrode
in the surface atmosphere. The problem with an underground mining
museum would be access for the public. It would also cause security
problems with their current success story- the underground storage of
archive material for hospitals, police, museums etc.
Barry Job
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Oldham [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 February 2004 09:34
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Subject: Salt Mining in Cheshire
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?
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