Mine: Detroit Salt Mine, Detroit, MI

Began → Detroit Salt Mine → Continuing

Operated for:

From: 1910

Owned by: Detroit Salt and Manufacturing Co., later Detroit Salt Company LLC. Bought by Kissner Group of Canada in 2010.

Produced: Rock salt.

Method: Mine shaft to 1,100 feet level.

Railroad connection: Wabash, Michigan Central

Until: Closed in 1983 and reopened in 1998.

Lifetime Production: 

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Notes

1,500 acres underground.

Initially used for leather and food industries. Now deicing road salt.

Two shafts. One for hauling workers and materials, other for salt product.

Time Line

1898. The directors of the Detroit Salt Co. ae considering a plan for the enlargement of their plant at Dix road and the River Rouge. The present capacity of the works is 600 barrels and if the enlargement is made the works will turn out 1,000 barrels of salt per day. The company now has two wells in operation and a third one is being bored. A depth of 600 feet has ben reached and it is thought that in another month the well will be in operation. An additional storage building is being erected which is 160 by 64 feet. The present storing capacity is 35,000 but will be nearly doubled when the new room is opened. [DFP-1898-0205]