Braskem’s 40 years of rock salt mining in Maceio has prompted the displacement of tens of thousands of people and on November 28 the company alerted authorities of the imminent risk the mine ...

A rock-salt mine of petrochemicals giant Braskem located in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio (the capital of Alagoas state) partially ruptured on Sunday (Dec 10), after officials warned ...

In doing so rock salt was discovered. Shafts were dug to get the salt, and each Confederate state was assigned one. The Federals came in, they seized and flooded the mine After the war the mine ...

The salt mine unveiled the new system, which is expected to expand its storage capabilities by 60,000 tons, during an Oct. 4 ...

The first operation for mining rock salt is undercutting, a process by which large machines cut a space 10 or more feet deep into a solid salt wall.

A WOMAN has been left mortified by her neighbour’s unruly ivy plant which seems to want nothing more than to invade her ...

A rupture at a rock salt mine in north-eastern Brazil has heightened fears of an impending total collapse. Video recorded by the civil defence authority showed murky water bubbling up in the ...

A shaft at Winsford Rock Salt Mine in Cheshire has been used to store hazardous material since 2004 but permission is due to run out in 2025. Council planning chiefs are being advised to approve ...

underground mining becomes favored, since it allows miners to work along ore veins and ignore the waste rock that encases them. Because tungsten ores are associated with mountain-building geology ...

Launched in 1928, the Consolidated Mine (Park Con) was a significant ore producer through the next decade. In 1936, the mine’s general superintendent, Gloyd M. Wiles, wrote a detailed report for the U ...

This collaboration, along with the financing, marks a major milestone in our journey to establish Canada's next salt mine." Peter Corcoran, Vice President of Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions Canada, ...

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