Submotown
Just when you think you know what makes Detroit so fascinating...
The ghostly salt city beneath Detroit Like a Jules Verne fantasy, a ghostly city with its own network of four lane highways lies deep beneath the industrial heart of Detroit, its crystalline walls glittering and gleaming in the flickering light. It is a world of no night or day.
It is a world of salt.
This gigantic salt mine, 1,200 feet beneath the surface, spreads out over more than 1,400 acres with 50 miles of roads. It lies underneath Dearborn's Rouge complex , much of Melvindale and the north end of Allen Park. The mine shaft opening is in Detroit.
The International Salt Mine Company operated the mines until 1983, when falling salt prices brought a halt to production.
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Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland. If caves could have personality disorder, this might be what it'd look like.
* Ray, 4/04/2005 04:33:00 PM
