salt mines
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Some of the NPR route is over old unmapped mining areas, especially the Cheshire salt mines.
From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026
Carpenter toiled for years in the Disney-pop salt mines before breaking out in 2022 with the comparatively frisky “Emails I Can’t Send.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
They fought battles to maintain possession of the salt mines, she learned—but ate almost no meat.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2023
Bakhmut, an industrial city surrounded by salt mines with a prewar population of around 70,000 people, has been under intense bombardment since the summer.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023
“I would have to go to work in the salt mines this time.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
