Wieliczka salt mine — a UNESCO world heritage site — has chapels, salt carvings, and underground lakes. It's also helping people recover from COVID.

In peaceful times, Soledar was known for its massive underground salt mine, whose tunnels go on for more than 200 kilometres, stretching underneath the town itself and across the surrounding region.

Twenty kilometres from Salzburg, this underground site reveals how “white gold” fashioned the region and gave its name to the “city of salt”.

A Wieliczka Salt Mine tour offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore an underground world of salt chambers, chapels, and tunnels that have been carved out by hand. History of the Wieliczka ...

13 A woman whose job it is to monitor the elevators that whiz people -- and salt -- to the surface. A total of 230 people work for the salt mine, with a small team of 25 miners who actively mine salt.

The Soledar salt mine also contain sculptures carved from salt, a chapel and displays of mining tools. Musicians of Donetsk's Philharmonic Orchestra perform during an underground concert in ...

Russian forces in Ukraine are trying to capture the eastern salt-mining town of Soledar in a sustained offensive that Kyiv's Defense Ministry has described as "maniacal." In 2019, RFE/RL's Amos ...

This strategic partnership establishes Sandvik as the preferred underground mobile mining equipment supplier ... 2024/ Atlas Salt Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of a comprehensive non ...

Deep underground, an ancient child toiled away in a salt mine. Perhaps their job was to shovel up discarded rocks. Or perhaps they carried precious materials to the surface.

The deepest part of the salt mine is about 900 feet underground. "You can see the different rocks, pretty much, these veins that come out," he said while pointing at a large salt wall with his ...

BINGHAM CANYON — The Kennecott Copper Mine has been a fixture of the Salt Lake Valley for over 100 years and on Tuesday, the mine announced that it will be moving mining operations underground ...