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Mar 25, 2019 · The oldest maps are hand drawn (manuscripts). This one by John Collins shows portage routes. Notes for the routes include the heights of waterfalls and distances of carrying, measured in both miles and chains. (Did you know a chain is 66 feet long, and 80 chains equals one statue mile?)
Apr 24, 2017 · At the 964 foot mark, only 36 feet from his goal, he shockingly struck salt, inadvertently tapping into the great Michigan Salt Bed, one of the largest and purest salt deposits in the world....
Sep 15, 2022 · The Sun Times, Ontario, Canada – 09.25.1950. In September 1950, winds fanned the flames, causing a dramatic fire expansion. Dense smoke rose high in the air where it hit an atmospheric trough...
Aug 14, 2017 · How Adam Shoalts explored Canada's past, one epic map at a time; It's a story that will surprise readers, and reveal the Canada we never knew was hidden.
- Salt
- Rock Salt
- Salt in The Chemical Industry
Sodium chloride (NaCl), or common salt, is ubiquitous in the environment. In its solid form, salt crystallizes as colourless cubes and is called rock salt. Salt is also known to geologists as halite. Its crystal structure was the first to be determined by X-rays. Salt crystals are transparent to translucent. In 1866, Samuel Platt drilled for oil ne...
Underground deposits of rock salt are recovered either by conventional room and pillar or bench mining, with subsequent milling and refining either underground or at the surface, or by the brining method, where water is injected into deposits and the resulting saturated solution is pumped to the surface. The brine is then put through vacuum triple-...
The Chemical Industry uses salt to manufacture chlorine, caustic soda, soda ash and sodium chlorate, which are used in the production of paper, soap, fibres and petrochemicals. Canada is the world's largest per capita consumer of salt, largely because it is widely used to improve winter driving conditions. Canada is the fourth-largest world produce...
Exports of salt in 1950 totalled 4,100 tons val-ued at $52,974 and imports amounted to 238,239 tons valued at $1,734,363. The apparent consump-tion of salt in Canada for all purposes computed from production plus imports less exports, totalled 1,412,687 tons valued at $8,692,695. TABLE 1. PrincIpal statistics for the salt industry, 1941-1950
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Canadian Salt Lindbergh 1950s. In June 1950, a new company, The Canadian Salt Co. Ltd., was formed. Mr. H. Milner, who had a controlling interest in the Lindbergh Salt Plant headed the new company.
