6. The salt is only white when
water leaches it from the rock.
This is can be quite dangerous
- the miners do not want
water leaking through
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11. The ceilings in this section are very high.
There is nylon fishing line hanging from the
ceiling in places to measure how much it
sinks - over thousands of years the
mountain will reclaim this space.
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23. After 3 attempts I made it
through this tunnel, holding
Maria’s hand. It helped that it
was pitch dark so I could not
actually see how narrow it was
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24. The miners used to be
paid in salt - Ben would
have been broke -he barely
chipped the rock
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