the rich salt deposits. Salt not only gave the name to this region, but also contributed more and more to the economic boom of the Salzkammergut in the late 17th and 18th centuries through the salt trade

500 people and extended to a depth of 1,300 m. It is now the Salt Mountain Cultural Park. Displays on the surface explain the importance of salt, the history of the mine and the park’s unusual geology and [...] The huge dome of salt at the town of Cardona in Catalunya has been exploited for 4,000 years. Industrial-scale mining began in the early twentieth century for potassium chloride, used in making fertilisers [...] choice of standard or ‘theatrical’ guided tours take people 86 m underground to see mining tunnels, salt formations and caverns.

tradition in the region of preserving fish, particularly sardine, but putting them in barrels with salt, but the new technology of canning was introduced and by 1900 there were 22 fish-canning factories [...] with a video from 1946 that explains the canning process, from catching the sardines to washing, salting, cleaning and canning. The museum is split into three exhibitions. The first traces the region’s

multi-century port structure that still houses important traces of its transformations: - from medieval salt warehouses to store cotton of late '800th century - from the sea-walls from the '500th "duty" fences

(weigh, grind, pack or sack) so the salt was ready for sale. The salt was carried to the “Casa de la Sal” by a drove of mules, they came into the first floor where the salt was weighed and afterwards it was [...] Salt has always been the element which has marked Gerri people’s fate and the village’s image. The salt production, there are records from the IX century which prove that, became a profitable business [...] business in the late 19th century. The salt exploitation is due to a salted spring a few meters far from the centre of the village. The water comes out at a temperature of 21º C, with an average density of sodium

Budejovice are preserved. The principal cargo on the line was salt, and re-enactments of the railway’s history are staged in the imperial salt warehouse in Ceske Budejovice.

industrial history, which also has some special features. Since the 12th century, brine, from which salt was extracted, has been mined in the area of today's Bad Salzelmen district. From 1756-65, a graduation [...] of brine, Germany's first brine spa was opened here in 1802 and is still in operation today, while salt production ceased in 1967. Originally to use waste from the saltworks, 'Hermania', Germany's first [...] works in temporary exhibitions. In the city area, the museum has created the "Historic Schönebeck Salt Trail", which runs between the Elbe and the Bad Salzelmen district.

the temperature of the furnaces, raking the salt, filling the tubs and baking it dry. Working in a traditional salt-works was anything but a push-over! Salt-making was not only damaging to the works it [...] This is why practical demonstrations of salt making in small salt pans are only available at certain times. Now at the latest you realise that a visit to the Lion Salt Works is the quintessence of industrial [...] can be seen at the Lion Salt Works in Marston near Northwich, the last of its kind in the county of Cheshire. Cheshire is justifiably proud of its thousand year old history of salt making. The last traces

small but very productive industrial area in the eastern Weserbergland, about 35 km south of Hanover. Salt production, glass manufacture, clay processing and lime distillation were based on the coal mined

the largest natural gas field in the country. Natural gas was first found in 1909 while drilling for salt. In 1910 a project was begun to install a 55-km pipeline from Sărmășel to Turda, which in 1916 became

only working salt mine as well as extensive displays illustrating the history of the salt industry in the region. In the 17th century invaders from the canton of Berne began to produce salt at Bex by e [...] in other parts of Switzerland. Ten years later the company began to produce salt by thermocompression, that is by bringing salt to the boil and compressing the resultant steam, a method that has been copied

east of Kraków in southern Poland. Its salt mine, supposedly the largest in Poland, probably dates from the thirteenth century, and was once part of the royal salt works administered from Kraków. The mine [...] Borlach, provides access for visitors, and links a succession of chambers created by the extraction of salt. There are several underground churches in the mine, the largest of them the Chapel of the Blessed

Pierre Paul Ricquet (1604-80), who for many years enjoyed the profitable post of controller of the salt tax for Languedoc. On his retirement in 1662 he began to argue at the court of Louis XIV that a canal

as one of the most important European salt works and even as a salt capital of the Middle Ages. The German Salt Museum/Industriedenkmal Saline Lüneburg [Lüneburg Salt Works Industrial Heritage Site] has [...] The main topics are the history of salt in the city of Lüneburg and the general global importance of salt in the past, present and future. The grounds of the German Salt Museum include several buildings [...] important salt production processes using the technology available in 1980. The centrepiece is the salt works’ last surviving boiling pan (160m2). The building also houses an integrated salt-drying facility

impressive landmarks, marching across the fields beside the river Rhine. Salt drilling in Zurzach was tried in 1856 and rock salt was discovered in 1882. The preserved group of towers for drilling and pumping [...] since the 1970s. One is used as a gymnastics club and another is preserved to show the heritage of salt. Visitors see information panels and look through viewing holes if the tower is closed or they can

sites, the remains of which belong to the Salt Museum in the mighty Borlach Tower, along with Europe’s longest continuous graduation tower. In the 18th century salt was a precious commodity and saline water [...] soluble salts. From the graduation tower the saline solution was transported to the crystallisation chamber via channels and collection basins, where it was heated up in large pans until the salt was cr [...] The quality of the salt was so high that the citizens of Dürrenberg were able to export it as far away as West Africa. In 1963, 200 years after the discovery of the saline springs, salt production ceased

Potash is a term used to denote a variety of mined and manufactured water-soluble salts of potassium and particularly potassium chloride, KCl (sometimes called Sylvite) and potassium sulphate, K2SO4. The [...] workings were 600 m below ground level, and thus safe from bombing attack, but the corrosive effects of salt in the atmosphere made precision engineering difficult, and the tunnels between caverns, some no more

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wings on either side of a monumental entrance building, which plays tricks of scale with visitors. Salt production came to an end in 1895, and a research institute and a conference centre now occupy the

Salt was produced at Salin at least from the 6th century AD, but the works that closed in 1962 and is now displayed as a museum dates principally from the mid-18th century. One of its largest underground [...] pumping system, which has scarcely changed since 1750. The works also includes four pans in which salt was evaporated by the heat generated by wood-fired furnaces. Salins was also a spa resort, and spa