To maintain their hold on the Midwest, the company strategically purchased the Detroit mine. By 1914, the mine was producing 8,000 tons of rock salt each month. The salt produced was mostly used ...
About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has ...
According to American Rock Salt, the company surpassed the total rock salt delivered in 2024 by several millions tons this year.
"I'm not sure that people connect the large piles of salt to the massive mining operation happening 2,000 feet below the lake." Workers can enter the mine by taking a four-minute elevator ride.