salt mine
Noun
Meaning
a job involving drudgery and confinement
a mine where salt is dug
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Hall has a quicker, cheaper, and easier alternative: its Tours are given of the town's reconstructed salt mine, complete with pits, shafts, drills, tools, and — the climax of any salt mine tour — the slippery wooden slide.
Taking new risks- summer luge rides and sliding down the banisters in the Hallstatt salt mine."
On 17 May 1945, Allied forces entered the salt mine where Captain Harry Anderson discovered the previously unknown "Vermeer". citation In May 1945, the Allied forces questioned banker and art dealer Alois Miedl regarding the newly discovered Vermeer.
The workprint containing deleted scenes finally turned up in the Hutchinson, Kansas salt mine film depository.
Near Zug Island, the southwest part of the city was developed over a convert salt mine that is convert below the surface.
Rock salt is mined intensively at a salt mine in Kłodawa (this mine alone accounts for about 20% of domestic production).