Processing and production cranes move salt up 1,000 ft from inside mines to ground level .
“ ROMAN EMPERORS WOULD GIVE OUT SALT TO EVERYDAY PEOPLE IN ORDER TO BOOST THEIR POPULARITY . A LOT OF THE ROADS IN ITALY AND THROUGHOUT THE OLD ROMAN EMPIRE WOULD GO PAST PLACES WHERE THEY WERE MAKING SALT WHEN THEY WERE ORIGINALLY BUILT .”
— DR . PAUL N . EUBANKS , ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
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