Who the heck mines salt these days? and for what purpose?
Pardon me for not reading the article, I’ll use the Monday AM excuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_mining
United States
Avery Island, Louisiana;
Detroit, Michigan, 1,100 feet (340 m) beneath which the Detroit Salt Company’s 1,500-acre (10 km2) subterranean complex extends;[6]
Saltville, Virginia, which served as the site of one of the Confederacy’s main saltworks.
Western New York and Central New York, location of American Rock Salt, the largest operating salt mine in the United States with a capacity for producing up to 18,000 tons each day.[7] Syracuse earned the nickname “The Salt City” for its salt mining, an activity that continues in the region to the present day.[8]
When I visited Poland last year, I visited the Wieliczka Salt Mine, outside of Krakow.
One of the most awesome places I’ve ever been to, they no longer mine salt, but they’ve made some incredible statues out of the salt formations.
They even built a full-size chapel, where they regularly hold Masses and Weddings.
My company sells hundreds of trucks of rock salt in the winter for use in ice melting on roads.
American Rock Salt(NY) is the company we buy most of them from.
Also, salt is used to treat water for almost every municipal water system. It is used as a water softener.
Out west salt comes from Salt Lake City, Utah and Carlsbad, NM.