Hazardous waste has been stored in a shaft at Winsford salt mine since 2004 Plans to continue dumping hazardous waste underground at Britain's only working salt mine have been approved.

you can elect to book the Miners’ Route within the Wieliczka Salt Mine. This organized tour, which is only suitable for those over the age of 10 years old, takes you down a mining shaft where ...

Boulby’s two shafts are 1,100m deep and lead to hundreds of miles of roadways which descend even further down into the earth. The mine was opened as a potash mine and the rock salt was produced ...

Grab from PA video of workers in Boulby Mine, in North Yorkshire, one of only two places in England where the salt used on the country’s roads is mined (Dave Higgens/PA) As gritting trucks work ...

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“Weather, and the unstable, steep and partially collapsed mine shafts had hampered the recovery efforts until the alternate route was discovered,” according to officials. The Salt Chuck Mine ...