Osceola County mine would produce tons of table salt and potassium chloride — potash — a critical mineral used by farmers to fertilize their crops.

The Finger Lakes mine that provides nearly all the rock salt used throughout metro Buffalo has struggled to keep its ...

A state contract for road salt has left Niagara County highway departments stuck with spotty deliveries and rationing. The towns of Lockport and Tonawanda announced last week that their road salt ...

The Wieliczka Salt Mine is one of the most fascinating attractions in Poland. This historic UNESCO World Heritage Site takes you 135 meters below the earth’s surface to discover the historic and ...

The Lansing town board is calling on state officials to revoke approval for a permit modification at the Cayuga Salt Mine, ...

Women are not allowed to mine, and the men who do wear shorts or swimwear and smear themselves with petroleum jelly.

LANSING, MI — Regulators are seeking public input on a draft air pollution permit for a controversial $1.2 billion salt and potash mine in Osceola County. The Michigan Department of Environment ...

The Tompkins County Legislature approved a resolution urging the Department of Environmental Conservation to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement on the Cargill Salt Mine beneath Cayuga Lake.

Meanwhile, gritters’ salt is mined – as is the case with most salts that are used industrially. Perhaps more surprisingly, the UK’s grit mostly comes from a single mine in Cheshire.

Cheshire's salt mines date back to the Triassic geological period, some 220 million years ago, when the county's weather was very different to what it is today. The importance of salt to Cheshire ...

Western New York faces a rock salt shortage, impacting local municipalities and snow removal efforts as winter conditions ...