the water evaporated and huge salt deposits were left behind under ground. More than 100 years ago, the deposit was discovered about 1,200 feet below metro Detroit. To get down to the mine ...

The parent company of the so-called “salt city” under Detroit will be acquired ... and nationally for winter road safety. Detroit’s salt mine has been in use since the early 1900s, according ...

It’s called “the city beneath the city”: the myriad tunnels and chambers of the Detroit salt mines comprise one of our great state’s man-made marvels, a true thing of fascination for ...

Detroit Salt has a salt mine dating back to the early 1900s at 12841 Sanders St. It’s now a so-called “salt city” about 1,200 feet below the city’s surface and spreading over 100 miles of ...

The salt deposits below Detroit and much of Michigan formed around 400 million years ago (ah, seems like just yesterday), and the salt mines were discovered under the Detroit area in 1895.

but you might have eventually reached the secret salty city below the streets of Detroit. ClickOnDetroit readers frequently submit questions about the salt mines through our 4YI form, so we ...

What does that Detroit salt mine look like anyway ... And this turns out to be the key to understanding why there’s salt under Detroit and none under Chicago: it’s because huge tectonics ...

As Environmental Graffiti’s Simone Preuss explains: The Detroit Salt and Manufacturing Company operated the mine until 1983 but then falling salt prices forced the mine to stop production.

Rock salt "comes from all over the world," says Roman. "There are mines all over the United States," notably near Cleveland, under Detroit, and in New York State, Kansas, and Louisiana.

Below Detroit's streets is a network of tunnel systems almost as elaborate as the bustling metropolis that sits above it.

The parent company of the so-called “salt city” under Detroit will be acquired ... and nationally for winter road safety. Detroit’s salt mine has been in use since the early 1900s, according ...