Beneath the surface of Lake Erie lies the sprawling salt mine where workers extract salt from beneath fresh water. This ...

Uralkali, the world’s largest potash producer and the mine’s operator, confirmed the incident to the Interfax news agency, saying the workers were crushed to death after a deposit of salt rock ...

But extracting the coveted salt means descending into dark caves, then blasting and carrying heavy rock. Faizan Panjwani: The problem is the massive size of the blocks that come from the mine.

Deep in the gut of the Picadilly Mine near Sussex, workers once laid off when potash prices shrank, are back underground, trying to keep up with the soaring demand for road salt to be spread on ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to boost mineral production “to the maximum possible extent” as ...

Take a ride down an elevator 650 feet below the surface of Hutchinson, Kansas and you’ll find endless miles of tunnels that lead to active salt mines dating back over a century. “They mined ...