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Posted on 12/26/2020 7:28:23 AM PST by texas booster
A large ice based type of snow. The snow of California/ western Nevada is usually corn snow.
In my mind I see salt the size of corn kernel and smaller chipped corn. Underground coal mines have scattered debris upon the floor.
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Posted on 12/26/2020, 10:28:23 AM by texas booster
The caps of salt domes can be rich in sulfur and potassium-based salts. That is what was being mined and shipped to the powder mills, not sodium chloride.
An old water well driller known to one of my relatives mentioend that any well deeper than 50’ west of the hamlet of Nunica will be salt water. It’s been down there a long, long time. Deeper still is the Marshall Sandstone, with plenty of water, but it’s pretty hard water.
Nobody in New Mexico has ever heard of Ziebart. You can be killed by a De Soto with the original paint.
Sounds similar to the lime mines below the Ohio river south of Cincinnati.
There they have to cut the truck beds in half before lowering them down to the mine along with the rest of the truck in parts, to be reassembled below. Dead heavy equipment is never brought to the surface.
The “rooms” are so big you could play a softball game there - 900+ feet below the surface.
Quite an experience.
Much cheaper and easier to handle, can be mixed right there on the job site as well which makes it much safer for transport.
I used to work in a Lime Mine, by the end of the day my clothes could stand up by themselves after I took them off and It took an hour to get all the dust off me. Worst job ever!
Good points.
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