Salt mining companies (15)
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Kingsgate Consolidated Limited
http://www.kingsgate.com.au/
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Characteristics of Salt
Sodium chloride, commonly known as salt, has the chemical compound
formula NaCl. Salts are characterized by ionic bonds, relatively high
melting points, electrical conductivity when melted or when in solution, and
a crystalline structure when in the solid state. Salt is a white solid,
soluble in hot or cold water, slightly soluble in alcohol, but insoluble in
concentrated hydrochloric acid. In the crystalline form the compound is
transparent and colorless, shining with an icelike luster.
Salt is widely available in nature. It is found in ocean water, as well as
many rivers, seas and lakes. It can also occur as a top layer in swamps and
dry lake bottoms. The simplest means of extracting salt is through
evaporation of salt water, however it can be expensive. Mainly salt is
obtained from mining rock salt from underground sources, through the
evaporation of rock-salt brine.
Uses of salt
Salt has been used throughout history to season and preserve foods, as
well as in ancient religious rites. It was an important medium of exchange
during the Middle Ages, especially across the Mediterranean. Salt is still
used today to season foods, as it is an essential part of the human diet.
However, it is also used as a source of chlorine and sodium. Chlorine
compounds of commercial importance include hydrochloric acid, chloroform,
carbon tetrachloride, and bleaching powder. Important sodium compounds
include sodium carbonate, sodium sulfate, baking soda, and sodium hydroxide.
Salt is also used in some refrigeration processes, in dyeing, manufacture of
soap and glass, production of prisms and lenses. There are also different
types of salt, including table salt, iodized salt, kosher salt, sea salt and
rock salt. Sea salt is evaporated from ocean water and comes in forms such
as sel gris, Esprit du Sel, and Fleur de Sel, pink salt, brown salt, and
black sea salt.
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Cargill Salt - Salt for home water conditioning, deicing and ice removal, food processing, foodservice, agricultural, and industrial uses
http://www.cargillsalt.com/
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Cheetham Salt
http://www.cheethamsalt.com.au/
Cheetham Salt
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http://www.detroitsalt.com/
This site contains information about the Detroit Salt Company Mine, mining operations, and products of the company. The salt mine is located in Detroit, Michigan.
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Irish Salt Mining and Exploration committed to strengthening links and forming new ones with Term Maintenance Contractors.
http://www.irishsaltmining.com/
Irish Salt Mining and Exploration committed to strengthening links and forming new ones with Term Maintenance Contractors.
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Salt Mining - WA Surface Mining
http://www.wasurfacemining.com.au/
Since commencing surface mining operations in 2006, WA Surface Mining has been at the forefront of surface mining in Australia and continues to be one of the most innovative contributors to the development of mining in the region.
WASM has all the equipment, staff and resources to provide a stand-alone service to resource owners and mining contractors. WASM provides the complete surface mining package: technologically advanced machines, experienced operators, maintenance crews, and ongoing research and development. The availability of this stand-alone service ensures minimal downtime not only for WASM's own machines, but also for mining companies who are making the most of WASM's expertise and success.
The floor of the pond at Useless Loop consisted of an excessively thick layer of salt crystals that had been untouched by the existing harvesting machines for many years. The machines in use at the time simply could not deal effectively with the uneven floor or the hardness of the salt caused by the continually developing salt crystals. The W2000 road profiler was set up with laser-levelling equipment to create a perfectly level floor. The pond that was harvested was approximately 300m by 350m in size, leaving behind a perfectly level floor to enable better growth for the salt.
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The Salt Manufacturers Association
http://www.saltsense.co.uk/
Key information on salt, its history, manufacture and uses from the Salt Manufacturers Association. The rock salt we use for gritting roads comes from mines of ancient underground salt deposits. In the UK, mines are situated in Cleveland, County Antrim and below the Cheshire town of Winsford.
There are many hundreds of salt beds or domes (as they are sometimes known) across the world. Mines vary in depth from 100 metres or so, to a mile or more. Within the mines, there are networks of pathways formed by the areas from which salt has already been extracted. These are used as roads for mining vehicles to move from one part of the mine to another, or for personnel to travel from the shafts to the working face. The UK’s salt mines have some 140 miles of tunnels – that’s almost as long as the M5 motorway!
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Minemakers Limited
http://www.minemakers.com.au/
Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in October 2006, Minemakers is a purpose built company. Minemakers' asset mix is designed to leverage shareholders' wealth to the Minerals Supercycle. This concept led to acquisition of major mineral deposits in Australia in anticipation of commodity price rises.
It owns, or has options over, Australia's: Largest undeveloped rock phosphate deposit at Wonarah, Northern Territory; Largest fluorspar deposit at Moina, Tasmania, which also contains magnetite, tin, tungsten and base metals; Most productive historic tin and tungsten district located in North East Tasmania; The western extension of the 0.5 billion tonne Southdown magnetite system in the South West of Western Australia; A potentially significant salt dome at Port Keats, Northern Territory.
Since acquisition of the projects, very strong price rises have been enjoyed for phosphate, fluorspar, iron, tungsten and tin and the Company is on the verge of commitment to a bankable feasibility study on Wonarah and Moina.
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Pyramid Salt Pty. Ltd.
http://www.pyramidsalt.com.au/
Pyramid Salt Pty Ltd (“Pyramid Salt” or the “Company”) is a high profile salinity management company displaying excellent revenue growth potential and strong product development opportunities that provide both import replacement and diversified national and international sales opportunities. The Company was formed in 1991 in Regional Australia to research and develop methods of land desalinisation through groundwater pumping & commercial solar salt production.
The Company has developed technology for the pumping of groundwater from areas of high groundwater salinity with this groundwater fed through a series of condenser ponds with gradually increasing brine content and then to crystalliser ponds in polyhouses from which very high quality salt is harvested. Salt purity is close to pharmaceutical and food quality. After harvesting, the salt is refined and packed for commercial sale.
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Polish Culture Website - The Most Famous Salt Mine - Wieliczka
http://www.polishculture.co.uk/
Situated in the vicinity of Krakow, Wieliczka used to be known as the place of brine exploitation as early as in the 10th and 11th centuries. In the 12th century Magnum Sal, a big fair settlement functioned there. The mining exploitation of rock-salt deposits began in the middle of 13th century, but this treasure was fully appreciated only by Casimir the Great. In 1368 he issued the so-called Casimir Regulations, the first Polish collection of mining laws, owing to which salt mining became the basis of royal income for a few centuries.
The mine functions continuously, but since the end of the previous century salt has no longer been drawn by mining methods, but by means of brine evaporation from mine’s leakages. The mine has nine levels to the depth of 327 m, approximately 300 km of galleries and nearly 3 thousand chambers.
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Mines, Mills and Concentrators in Canada - Results
http://mmsd1.mms.nrcan.gc.ca/
Mines, Quarries, Pits, Bogs, Mills and Concentrators in Canada - Salt
The Minerals and Mining Statistics Division (MMSD) is part of the Minerals and Metals Sector (MMS) of Natural Resources Canada. MMSD is responsible for the collection, analysis and dissemination of comprehensive statistics on the Canadian minerals industry describing ore reserves, exploration, and mineral production and use, and for the conduct, in collaboration with Statistics Canada and the provincial and territorial governments, of various surveys of mine complex development and production.
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Australian Mining, Mining News, Jobs and Employment, Engineering Supplies, Minerals, Perth Australia Mining Equipment, Industrial Supplies, Mining Portal and Services by MineBox
http://www.minebox.com/
Australian Mining, Mining News, Jobs and Employment, Engineering Supplies, Minerals, Perth Australia Mining Equipment, Industrial Supplies, Mining Portal and Services by MineBox.
Botswana Ash (Botash) - a leading supplier of soda ash, chemical grade salt and salt for human consumption in southern Africa - has joined Quadrem, the Global eMarketplace(TM). Botash supplies most of South Africa's soda ash needs and procures almost 50% of its goods and services, amounting to around 10% of its total costs, from South African suppliers.
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Olsson Industries
http://www.olssons.com.au/
Olsson's is 100% Australian owned and produces salt nationally. Olsson's manufacture a large range of salt products for animal nutrition and commercial use. Olsson Industries is the only family-owned and operated company producing salt in Australia. In addition to salt products Olsson’s also manufacture nutritional supplements for livestock, such as cattle, sheep, goats, horses, etc.
The Olsson family started this particular business in 1949 as a direct result of numerous requests from graziers for someone to produce supplements to meet the nutritional needs of their sheep and cattle during the severe drought that started in 1947 and continued until 1952. Olsson’s 1st salt block was produced in 1949 in a shed just west of Parramatta. It was the first pressed salt block produced in Australia to contain a range of minerals and was the forerunner of all the multi-nutrient blocks produced in Australia from that time onwards.
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Solar Desalination
http://www.solardesalination.com.au/
Wherever flat land, sunshine and salty water exist in the same place solar salt harvesting is possible. It simply involves leaving salt water to evaporate and harvesting the salt. Cheetham Salt, the nation's largest salt producer, has been solar salt harvesting in Australia for more than 100 years. An Acquasol strategic partner, Cheetham controls much of the land upon which Acquasol's solar-powered desalination complex will sit. The land, located at Point Paterson just south of Port Augusta, was used for solar salt harvesting until the late 1940s. But sincethen, it's been fallow.
Acquasol's desalination plant offers an opportunity to reopen the salt fields. But rather than evaporating seawater, the salt fields will evaporate brine, the hypersaline waste liquid byproduct of desalination. Twice as salty as seawater, brine is ideal feedstock for salt harvesting because the job of separating salt from water is already half done. This should lead to lower production costs. It also means brine is kept out of the ocean where it can have unknown impacts on the sensitive marine environment.
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WA Salt Supply
http://www.wasalt.com.au/
WA Salt Supply is Western Australia's premier producer of salt for the domestic market, and we have an ever-expanding export programme which takes our packaged salt to countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Fiji, Brunei, Reunion Island, USA, China, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Canada, United Kingdom and Germany. Our salt is harvested from naturally occuring salt lakes at Koolyanobbing, 450km from Perth, and Esperance, some 700km south east of Fremantle. These lakes produce a natural, high quality salt which is transported by rail to Fremantle.
WA Salt Supply is a medium-sized, family-owned salt manufacturing business located in Western Australia. WA Salt Supply is certified to the AS/NZS ISO 9002 Quality Standard. All levels in our organization are committed to achieving the highest levels of quality in products and service, as well as constant improvement in Quality.
WA Salt Supply places the utmost importance on fostering ethical business practices and believes strongly in the concept of loyalty, both to our suppliers and our customers. We believe that building good relationships with our customers is the key to doing good business. WA Salt Supply actively encourages people at all levels in the organization to conduct the company's affairs with honesty and integrity.
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