[hecticskeptic]

Aren’t they afraid that if they mine out too much salt, the island will tip over?
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No but one wonders about the danger of any kind of surface mine in that part of the world given the geology, water table etc.

[31R1O]

That very thing happened in Louisiana once.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur

[pierrem15]

In 1980 at Lake Peignure in LA Texaco drilled in the middle of the lake into a salt mine.

The lake drained like a bathtub.

https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2016-07-11/how-louisianas-lake-peigneur-became-200-feet-deep-in-an-instant

[blam]

"No but one wonders about the danger of any kind of surface mine in that part of the world given the geology, water table etc."

Watch this video.