The document describes a tour of the Catedral de Sal salt mine. It notes that the walls of the mine are made of solid salt rock, and that the salt contains no iodine which caused health issues for local people. The tour involves seeing carved crosses and columns in the rock, a small underground lake, and narrow tunnels that were mined using dynamite.
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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