Compass Minerals Salt Mine - Goderich, Ontario, Canada
N 43° 44.800 W 081° 43.600
17T E 441492 N 4843992
Compass Minerals’ Goderich salt mine, located 1,800 feet under Lake Huron, is the largest underground salt mine in the world.
Waymark Code: WMXYH7
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 03/17/2018
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Compass Minerals’ Goderich salt mine, located 1,800 feet under Lake Huron, is the largest underground salt mine in the world. The mine is as deep as the CN Tower in Toronto is tall. It has operated since 1959 and was acquired by Compass Minerals in 1990.
As of 2012, 150 million tones of salt has been produced from the mine and is now able to produce 9 million tons a year.
Most of the rock salt produced at the mine is used on North American roads as a safety precaution in the winter. The salt is shipped to hundreds of communities around the Great Lakes and along the St. Lawrence Seaway. Some of the salt is trucked to the nearby Compass Minerals plant to be packaged for distribution and sale at retailers in North America. The salt is also sold in bulk to manufacturers that make plastics, detergents, disinfectants and other important products.
The Goderich plant has operated since 1867, after an unsuccessful search for oil uncovered a vast bed of rock salt under Goderich.
Kind: Salt Mine
Is the place still active?: yes
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