EditorialOleh Vaida, left, a volunteer, and artist Ivan Shulhin, 34, paint a mural depicting a package of salt from the salt mine in Soledar, which is no longer sold after the mine fell to Russian forces in January, in Irpin, Ukraine, April 26, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialA miner's pick-axe and shovel made of maple wood, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialUnderground passages and shafts to Bevieux, Plan of the salt mine B?vieux near Bex from the 19th century, signed: H. J. Penningh sc, no. 48, after p. 304, Penningh, H. J. (sc.), 1805, Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard: Malerische Reise durch einen gross...
EditorialFacilities of the iron mine and the salt mines of Pontarlier, Plans for facilities of the ironworks and the salt mine of Pontarlier, engraving, 1789, Johann Jacob Ferber: Mineralogische und metallurgische Bemerkungen in Neuchatel, Franche Comt? und Bou...
EditorialA miner's wooden pouch and fur cap from the pre-historic salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialInterior of a rock salt mine at Northwich, Cheshire. Miners preparing to haul salt up to the surface. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
EditorialInterior of a rock salt mine at Northwich, Cheshire. Miners preparing to haul salt up to the surface. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
EditorialA miner's wooden pouch and fur cap from the pre-historic salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.