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    Gee whiz I miss these.:rolleyes: (Salt spreader).

     
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    The Fascinating Early History of Salt
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    "In Northern Europe, salt was being harvested as early as 400 BC in mines outside of the Austrian mountain town of Salzburg (meaning literally “salt town.”) Of Celtic descent, these ancient Alpine salt miners were often caught inside their unstable caves when water and other forces caused the walls to shift and collapse. Later salt miners would find their shoes, clothes and bodies well preserved:

    In the year 1573 . . . a man, 9 hand spans in length, with flesh, legs, hair, beard and clothing in a state of non-decay, although somewhat flattened, the skin a smoky brown color, yellow and hard like codfish, was dug out of the Tuermberg mountain . . . ."
     
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    Pickled Salzburgers?
     
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    I lived not to far from here and would travel through the town every time heading north for fishing
    The world's largest salt mine
     
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    Thanks for the video, Martin. We used to go fishing in Ontario in the summers, north of Peterborough.
     
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    We have salt mines here in Louisiana. I can still remember when my family moved to South Carolina and I did a Science Project on a salt mine here in LA. I wrote to the salt mine and was sent all kinds of samples, etc. to use in my Science Project and I was so excited because I got an A+ on it. :)

    The video is about a salt mine disaster caused by a drilling rig here in Louisiana.
     
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    Amazing video Babs. Thank you! So relieved to learn no one in the mine was killed. I was holding my breath.

    Salt mines was a great choice for a science project topic. Not the typical thing kids choose.
     
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    ….his name was Big Mack!:eek:
     
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