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Where does it come from?
How big is the hole it came out of?
Will the planet collapse into that hole?
And will they ever just mine midwestern roadsides for salt?
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And will they ever just mine midwestern roadsides for salt? Illinois roads look like they already do...
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I am MAGA.
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Comes from Siberia - they sent my grampaw there for moonshining twice .
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No... Serious question... Sorta?
Figure how many cubic yards of the stuff gets dumped on roads every year.
No salt mined near me that I'm aware of?
I remember a while back some guys getting trapped in a salt mine. New York Maybe???
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Road Salt !!!!!
Wiki; ''Bull sharks can thrive in both salt and brackish water and can travel far up rivers due too high levels of ''''road salt''''. They have been known to travel up the Mississippi River as far as Alton, Illinois, about 700 miles (1100 km) from the ocean .''
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No... Serious question... Sorta?
Figure how many cubic yards of the stuff gets dumped on roads every year.
No salt mined near me that I'm aware of?
I remember a while back some guys getting trapped in a salt mine. New York Maybe??? I pondered it myself John - the county i'm from in sw ohio has mountains of it piled up in reserve for winter every year . So ? there has a be some big empty salt mines somewhere .
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Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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Its mined in various places I used to work in road maintenance. The winning bidder on contracts in BC was usually either from Mexico or Saskatchewan. Mexico barged it up, Saskatchewan sent it on a train. Various places in Central America have lots too but transportation that far away gets spendy. They're basically mining ancient salt lake bottoms long dried up. There is no foreseeable shortage the world has oodles of it. Africa has insanely huge deposits,
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No... Serious question... Sorta?
Figure how many cubic yards of the stuff gets dumped on roads every year.
No salt mined near me that I'm aware of?
I remember a while back some guys getting trapped in a salt mine. New York Maybe??? I pondered it myself John - the county i'm from in sw ohio has mountains of it piled up in reserve for winter every year . So ? there has a be some big empty salt mines somewhere . some states mine it out of saltpeter mines... that is the reason those states have a lot of flat tires in winter each year on their highways...
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I think I have this straight, in Canada Winsor Salt is, or was big. They mine under one of the Great Lakes, the salt is run over screens to size it for different uses.
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Its mined in various places I used to work in road maintenance. The winning bidder on contracts in BC was usually either from Mexico or Saskatchewan. Mexico barged it up, Saskatchewan sent it on a train. Various places in Central America have lots too but transportation that far away gets spendy. They're basically mining ancient salt lake bottoms long dried up. There is no foreseeable shortage the world has oodles of it. Africa has insanely huge deposits,
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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There are some salt domes in Louisiana. Years ago Texaco was drilling and punched into one that had been mined and the lake drained into the salt dome Avery Island where they make Tobasco is on a salt dome.
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They use salt to make chlorine.
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I believe the Magnesium Chloride used comes outta Utah? Naturally occuring. I dunno where the Calcium magnesium acetate comes from?
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Doesn't it pollute the environment laying down all that salt year after year?
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Yer up on me Bob, I don't know what they are!
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There is a huge deposit that runs from western NYS over into Michigan. There are several mines here in NY, the oldest (Watkins Glen NY) has been in place over a century. That plant uses steam to extract, and the re-crystalizes the stuff. Most of the other mines use underground extraction, they dig it out, then convey it to the surface.
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RIchard. Those are the two deicers we used extensively here. We only resorted to regular salt when we had run out of everything else. Those two above mentioned product were suppose to not be as corrosive as reg salt. I always had my doubts. Mag chloride imho was better of two for deicing. Probably too expensive to use in your environs. Thats why salt is popular
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Bob, somewhere there is what farmers call chloride for tractor tire fluid weight, ballast. I think that is what you call mag chloride.
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I take that back, calcium chloride is tractor tire fluid.
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