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  1. Towns and Nature: Goderich, ON: Sifto is World's Largest Underground

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  2. Two World's Largest Salt Mines

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  3. The Sifto Salt Mine in Goderich, Ontario, Canada

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  4. Sifto Salt Mine

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  5. Sifto Canada Salt Mine in Goderich, Ontario

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  6. Salt at the source: A day in a Lake Huron mine

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  1. World's Largest Underground Salt Mine

    Compass Minerals' Goderich salt mine, located 1,800 feet under Lake Huron, is the largest underground salt mine in the world. The mine is as deep as the CN Tower in Toronto is tall. It has operated since 1959 and was acquired by Compass Minerals in 1990. The rock salt produced at the mine is used to keep citizens in North America safe as they ...

  2. Salt at the source: a day in a Lake Huron mine

    In 2009, a worker died under an avalanche of salt in a storage shed, leading to a $140,000 fine for Sifto and 14 recommendations from a coroner's inquest. Rogers says the recommendations have since been implemented. Jeff Coulter looks at a freshly cut section of the mine with salt on all sides. The long hard winter.

  3. The world's largest salt mine

    The largest operating salt mine in the world is in Goderich, Ontario and is run under the name Sifto with the parent company Compass Minerals. The mine runs...

  4. Where is the World's Largest Underground Salt Mine?

    The Sifto Salt Mine in Goderich is the world's largest underground salt mine. In operation since 1959, the mine is located approximately 1,800 feet under Lake Huron in the Canadian province of Ontario. It stretches over 1.5 miles wide, 2 miles long, and covers an area of 2.7 million squares miles. The Sifto Salt Mine produces over 7 million ...

  5. Welcome to the Home of the Largest Underground Salt Mine in ...

    Welcome to the Home of the Largest Underground Salt Mine in the World! Yep - that's us, Goderich, Ontario. Over the past months we have been working with Compass Minerals to put this How It's Made style video all about the Salt Mine and Evaporator plants.

  6. Hop on Hop Off Guided Bus Tours

    91 Hamilton St, Goderich, Ontario. N7A 1R1. 519-524-6600. [email protected]. Hop on Hop off guided tour bus will visit the surface portions of the Goderich Salt Mine, the Evaporator Plant, The Goderich Waterfront, Downtown and other significant sites around Goderich. Learn more about the history of salt mining in Goderich.

  7. The Sifto Salt Mine in Goderich, Ontario, Canada

    The Sifto Salt Mine in Goderich, Ontario, Canada, is the largest underground salt mine in the world.Salt mines are mines from which salt is extracted, typica...

  8. A visit to the world's largest operating salt mine

    However, we didn't find any mounds of salt, for the operation actually occurs far underground, at a depth of about 1800 feet, and the Sifto Canada mine, which is now a part of the American-owned Compass Minerals Company, apparently extends for more than two miles into Lake Huron and averages a width of more than a mile.

  9. Sifto Canada Home

    Truly Canadian quality products trusted by families since 1867. Sifto® Canada.

  10. Sifto Salt Home

    English. Sifto ® salt. An enduring part of our home and native land. Today, Compass Minerals provides those same, cherished Sifto salt products.

  11. Goderich Salt Mine

    The mine, operated by Sifto Salt, a subsidiary of Compass Minerals of Kansas, supplies much of the salt applied to slippery streets each winter throughout Toronto and other cities in the Great Lakes area of U.S. and Canada. ... Only had a tour of the mine once. Nice to hear about Goderich again? Phil Main (Hardware) Reply. Glenn says. November ...

  12. THE WORLD'S LARGEST SALT MINE. The SIFTO Mine in Goderich, Ontario

    Where is the largest underground salt mine in the world? The largest underground salt mine in the world, the Sifto Salt Mine, is located in Goderich, Ontario...

  13. A virtual tour of the Goderich Salt Mine

    A virtual tour of the Goderich Salt Mine. Jan 10, 2022. Robert McVeigh, Sifto Salt Mine. A virtual tour of the Goderich Salt Mine. Robert McVeigh grew up in the small coal mining town of New Waterford, NS on beautiful Cape Breton Island. A graduate of Dalhousie University's Mining Engineering program he began his career in mining in 2008 with ...

  14. HOME

    This cost-effective operation produced granular salt crystals widely used for table salt. Surprisingly, mining in Goderich didn't occur until the late 1950s. Engineers finished construction of a mine shaft in 1959 so miners could descend almost 550 meters to crush rock salt for winter roads and water softeners.

  15. Blog Detail Page

    The world's largest salt mine is right here, in Goderich, Ontario. You can find the salt mine located beneath Lake Huron. It's so extravagantly large that it's hard to visualize: the mine is as deep as the height of the CN Tower. In 2014, according to the Toronto Star, the mine was producing 2,600 pounds of salt per day - an amazing feat ...

  16. Ontario Salt Mines Itinerary

    Day 1. . 9:00 am Depart from the Chan Tours headquarters. 12:00 pm Arrive at Goderich, Ontario. 12:00 - 1:00 pm Enjoy lunch at the Courthouse Park. 1:00 - 3:30 pm Visit the Goderich Salt Mine. 3:30 - 5:30 pm Walk over to Goderich's main beach to enjoy the rest of the afternoon. 5:30 - 7:00 pm Enjoy dinner at one of the town's restaurants.

  17. Goderich Ontario

    In 1959, Sifto Canada constructed its first mine shaft, some 1,800 feet beneath the surface of the earth, with tunnels extending over four miles under Lake Huron. A second shaft became operational in 1968 and a third shaft was added in 1983.

  18. Everything you need to know about salt mines

    The depth of salt mines vary, however, the largest operating salt mine is the Sifto mine in Ontario; with depths reaching 1,800 feet below Lake Huron. This depth matches the height of the CN Tower. ... Can you take a salt mine tour? In addition to the actual mining of salt, many salt mines have opened their doors to commercial tours. Some of ...

  19. Sifto Canada

    Sifto was founded by Sam Platt who was prospecting for oil in 1866, and instead of oil encountered rock salt in Goderich Harbour on Lake Huron. Sifto Canada was formed in 1950 and the company was acquired by the United States chemical company Compass Minerals in the 1990s. The Goderich mine developed into the largest salt mine in Canada and ...

  20. Unity, Saskatchewan

    In 1990, the Unity plant became part of the company that would eventually be known as Compass Minerals. The plant produces and packages a wide variety of salt products including water conditioning salt, bulk salt, food-grade salt and salt for agriculture. Highway 14 East. Unity, Saskatchewan S0K 4LO. 306.228.2641.

  21. Deep and Dry

    The Sifto salt mine, owned and operated by Compass Minerals of Overland Park, Kansas, produces nine million tonnes annually. Ninety per cent of that output is scattered on road surfaces in Ontario, Quebec and a number of northern U.S. states every winter to keep them ice-free and safe for the driving public. The balance is used in water ...

  22. Goderich and Ontario's West Coast

    Most of the salt is used for roads in the winter to provide de-icing to keep us safe. They found the ancient Michigan Salt Basin while drilling for oil in 1866. Sifto started their mine in the harbour in 1959 and so far they haven't breached the water and emptied the lake.

  23. Two World's Largest Salt Mines

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