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Offline jl222

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Boston salt
« on: January 23, 2019, 11:47:56 AM »
  Foto on [World News Tonight] last Friday of 300 thousand tons of salt in Boston. A mountain of salt ready to spread
on roads for the coming storm.

   Where did it come from, how much did it cost?


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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2019, 12:01:38 PM »
That rock salt comes from underground salt mines. Most are located east of the Mississippi and a handful are under the Great Lakes.
Cities that order thousands of ton by contract could pay $160 a ton delivered by trucks.
Hundreds of thousands of ton of salt are delivered by rail car at greater distances.
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2019, 01:13:30 PM »
I've been in a salt mine about a third of a mile under Detroit.  It's big -- full-size earth movers and loaders, and we rode around in Jeeps.  The vein of salt (so to speak) extends across a good portion of lower Michigan, although I don't know of other commercial salt mines there.  I do not know if the salt was used for dill pickles or slippery roads.
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2019, 02:00:04 PM »
Best use of Salt is racin and home made ice cream :-D
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2019, 11:51:55 PM »
Salt mines are located in Kansas, Michigan, New York, Texas and Virginia.
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2019, 04:30:25 PM »
boston and providence get shiploads
 of product from chile....  the salt at the ports arrive by ship    inland stockpiles arrive by rail
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2019, 07:17:31 PM »
Big salt pounds around San Francisco bay. Not as many as there used to be. At one time it was shipped out of Redwood City by the ship load
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2019, 09:22:19 PM »
I live in Salina, Utah. Guess where they got the name. :lol:
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2019, 12:09:50 AM »
Quote from: Elmo Rodge on January 24, 2019, 09:22:19 PM
I live in Salina, Utah. Guess where they got the name. :lol:
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2019, 09:27:49 AM »
Oh boy.  :roll: Not to be confused with Salinas. Good shot, Don.  :cheers:
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2019, 03:13:01 AM »
Thought I took pictures of 4 or 5 rail cars full of salt and a huge pile sitting next to a few empty ones? This was just west of Intrepid on Saturday or Sunday of Speedweek.
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2019, 07:32:05 PM »
Slim, I'm from Windsor, Ontario- Windsor Salt.. the mines are everywhere...

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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2019, 07:01:49 AM »
Guys...you might like to look up “Salt Fracking” in Texas. Interesting read.
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2019, 08:17:01 PM »
We have salt mines around here also. I actually worked in the salt mine at Weeks Island, La. preparing it to later be partially filled with oil as in the "Strategic Oil Reserve". I believe it is still being used that way and mined for salt at another level. Another salt mine at Avery Island, La. was punctured by a drilling rig and caused the whole mine to collapse draining a lake above and taking something like 30 acres with it.
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Re: Boston salt
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2019, 08:57:28 PM »
Lots of issues with salt mining leaving some areas with real problems.
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