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salt mine
(redirected from Salt mining)

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Noun1.salt mine - a mine where salt is dugsalt mine - a mine where salt is dug            
mine - excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
2.salt mine - a job involving drudgery and confinementsalt mine - a job involving drudgery and confinement
job, line of work, occupation, business, line - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business"


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Irish Salt Mining And Exploration said yesterday it would look after its regular customers but could not take on any new ones, however desperate their plight.
Since late November, we have devoted a higher proportion of operating days to salt mining," the spokesman said.
Extensive beds of salt formed more than 200 million years ago lie beneath the Cheshire countryside and several towns have their roots in salt mining.
 
 
 
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