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The Cargill salt mine: an other world under Lake Erie
Rock the Lake (Cleveland Lakefront Collaborative) ^ | Dec 1, 2017 | Laura Johnston

Posted on 12/26/2020 7:28:23 AM PST by texas booster

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To: UnwashedPeasant

Under the omnibus bill, 15% of snow must be made from corn.

That’s hilarious.


61 posted on 12/26/2020 8:55:20 AM PST by KingLudd
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To: DoodleBob
Here is an interesting video of the Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident in Louisiana that punctured a salt mine under the lake.

Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident

62 posted on 12/26/2020 9:00:19 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: texas booster

“But site manager Steve Horne says it has at least 50 years more, until global warming reduces the need for road salt...”

So global warming will eliminate all snow in the American Midwest in 50 years?

Anyone this stupid should not be managing anything.


63 posted on 12/26/2020 9:01:20 AM PST by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: FLNittany

I met Whitney Macmillon, the last family member to run the company. Traditional American mid-westerner to his core, even though he was super-rich.

Those values are why they company has survived so long.


64 posted on 12/26/2020 9:01:25 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Jotmo

Absolutely no one seems to question global warming any longer.

The propaganda has even worked into the long-term business plans of companies large and small.


65 posted on 12/26/2020 9:02:19 AM PST by PGR88
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To: texas booster

Salty Dog!


66 posted on 12/26/2020 9:03:57 AM PST by Big Red Badger ("Bats Soup" to "Nuts" Biden,CHINAs' Beind it ALL!)
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To: texas booster

We took the kids to a tour at a salt mine in Hutchison Kansas some years ago. It was well worth the time and money.


67 posted on 12/26/2020 9:04:28 AM PST by Clay Moore (Mega prayers, Rush )
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To: wildcard_redneck; texas booster; lightman
Thank you both. And, in His Name and in the Spirit of the the Season, as a Pennsylvanian I return you the diversion of The Centralia Mine Fire.
68 posted on 12/26/2020 9:15:02 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: texas booster

They have a salt mine in Detroit too.


69 posted on 12/26/2020 9:17:41 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
If it ever springs a leak it will be like the Great Chicago Flood of 1992. Water has a way of finding places to leak.
70 posted on 12/26/2020 9:52:56 AM PST by glorgau
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To: texas booster
it has at least 50 years more, until global warming reduces the need for road salt

Well....either that, or not.

71 posted on 12/26/2020 10:01:57 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump won the "popular vote". Biden won the digital vote.)
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To: SgtHooper

Given its depth under the lake, I doubt there would be any effect, given how thick the rock layer is overhead and the fact that they seem to be excavating only about a 20ft layer. Also, If abandoned, it would fill with water from the leaks under great pressure.


72 posted on 12/26/2020 10:05:10 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: KingLudd
"Under the omnibus bill, 15% of snow must be made from corn."

And then 25% of the snow must be given for free to opera singers and stand-up comics.

73 posted on 12/26/2020 10:11:04 AM PST by Lockbar (Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
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To: nascarnation
Thanks, Cargill...


74 posted on 12/26/2020 10:12:56 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: texas booster

I worked on a mine reclamation project in ND many years ago. What was happening is large craters were forming above the mines below. Some craters caused main roads to sink. The mines were very large rooms where coal was removed with the ceilings supported by columns of coal left in tact. Over the decades these support columns would deteriorate, causing the ceiling to fall, layer by layer. What worsened it was some mines were flooded which as a result caused underground streams of fresh water.

During the project large D8 dozers and caterpillar brand scrapers would fall through the surface into air pockets just below, creating yet another crater.


75 posted on 12/26/2020 10:14:51 AM PST by redfreedom (Member of Agent Orange Health Club Since 1969)
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To: PGR88
I met Whitney Macmillon, the last family member to run the company. Traditional American mid-westerner to his core, even though he was super-rich.

Those values are why they company has survived so long.

Yeah - the ccp comment above couldn't be further from the truth. Cargill quietly goes about their business. They are very benevolent as well. They're soooo big they don't have to pander as much because they aren't really a brand name.

76 posted on 12/26/2020 10:30:05 AM PST by FLNittany
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To: P.O.E.

Impressive!


77 posted on 12/26/2020 10:56:08 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: crusty old prospector

Salt peter is potassium nitrate... used to be mined from bat guano in caves. It cane be made from manure and urine.


78 posted on 12/26/2020 10:57:53 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: bigbob

LOL! Do you think they’ll back fill it when the mine is spent!?


79 posted on 12/26/2020 11:01:19 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: nascarnation
Thank you. The amount of misinformation these days on FR is disheartening. Totally unlike 20 yrs ago.

That is because the amount of information on the internet today is composed of 10% fact, 60% fiction and 31% pure bullshit.

The extra one percent is because it really stinks.

I read less, post less, believe nothing and after the election fraud, am really worried to see if America can last for 250 years.

Rome made 500 years, we will not even be close.

If anyone needs proof, look at Beirut, Cuba, Venezuela, any central American country, the norks and for a real disaster, the racists, bigoted slants in china.

Pawns of the collective, not even cogs in a wheel, zero freedom for the ability to eat raw dogs nuts and bat's blood for desert.

No thank you, I will not participate.

80 posted on 12/26/2020 11:17:41 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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