#salt mine

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Inside Ukrainian Moria: Huge Artyomsol Salt Mine Deep Under Ground by Ivan R.

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This 3100-year-old wooden staircase is the oldest in Europe and was found in a Hallstatt salt mine in Austria

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Esta escalera de madera de 3100 años es la más antigua de Europa y se encontró en una mina de sal de Hallstatt en Austria

Questa scala in legno di 3100 anni è la più antica d'Europa ed è stata trovata in una miniera di sale di Hallstatt in Austria

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Ses Salinas natural park in Ibiza, Spain

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Multicolored walls of a salt mine located 1,380 feet (420 meters) underground, near the town of Soligorsk, south of Minsk, Belarus. Parts of this mine have been converted into a speleotherapy clinic for treatment of respiratory illnesses such as asthma and bronchitis. (Sergey Mikhalenko / Shutterstock)

via The Strange Beauty of Salt Mines, The Atlantic by Alan Taylor, April 3, 2019

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You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.

Israelmore Ayivor

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Asse II mine

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The entrance to the restaurant is closed but I can peek in over the fence. I'm still lost in the endless salt galleries. At least the music is nice.

[song name: El Bimbo by Fausto Papetti]

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Salt mine workers - Lake Afrera, 2018

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While I’m fuming about something unrelated, here’s some spooky edits I made to pictures I took while in a salt mine yesterday. Not the best quality creepycore images but eh.

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Wieliczka Salt Mine

February 2024

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No need to answer if you don’t feel comfortable but I was wondering why you don’t like russingon? Honestly just curious

Totes my opinion only under the cut

Because it's everywhere. Even in places you don't actively look for it. For example, I'll be picking up a fic centered on, say, Silvergifting, or CuruFinrod, or Angbang or even El-Galad, but then, somehow, some way, Russingon gets in there like an annoying little mold where it obviously has no place in it? And the worst thing is, 90% of the stories with shoehorned Russingon lose the focus of the story to begin with as Russingon somehow tries to take center stage. I don't like it, so I don't look for it, so if I find a nice fic and settle down to read and THEN still find Russingon in it, it's a massive turn-off.

Worse, the portrayals are also 90% ick. Fingon has no personality and ultimately almost always reduced to a reckless whore of an elf, and Maedhros is almost always made dependent on Fingon, dumbed down into this unrecognizable meow-meow that somehow always has to be led by the hand. I can't stand dumbed down portrayals. Especially with Maedhros, who is canonly described as 'capable of deeds of surpassing valor' and 'the orcs fled from his face'.

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Salt flakes from Drohobych Saltworks, the oldest functioning enterprise in Ukraine.

Dozens of millions years ago this was an ancient sea.

Then mountains rose. The water lost its connection to the sea, forming salt lakes. Over hundreds of thousands of years, the water evaporated, leaving salt deposits that later moved underground through tectonic movements.

Several hours before the photo was taken, the heavily salted water was pomped from underground, boiled in the big bowls... and this is how freshly crystalized salt flakes look.

I tried a pinch of it and it was so delicious!

The salt was a major export product from the area. The business flourished untill late 16 century when cheaper salt was discovered in Wieliczka and a few other places.

In recent years, Drohobych salt production has been more about local heritage and tradition than business, so it's been subsidized by the Ukrainian government. I led several tours for my American guests there when I took this photo and tasted the local legendary product.

Just a couple hundred meters from the Saltworks there is a unique wooden Church inscribed on Unesco World Heritage list, which is another story...

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Everything is so gray…

Based on Maras Salt Mines, Cusco, Peru.