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Wieliczka Salt Mine

Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland. Heritage site, underground, mining industrial salt.

Why Wieliczka Salt Mine is famous

Medieval salt mine with nine levels and a depth of 315 or 327 m depending on the source. Passage length is given as 200 or 320 km in the source, and the sources conflict. Salt mining ended in 1996. Start taken as 1290 from a timeline, with the 13th century stated.1,2

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Wieliczka Salt Mine today

Mining in Poland

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Mines

An example ofHallstatt salt mineTwo great salt mines: Wieliczka, nine levels deep, and Bronze Age Hallstatt.1

Places

Located inWieliczkaWieliczka Salt Mine sits at Wieliczka.1

Sources

  1. Wieliczka Salt Mine information page University of Lviv
  2. Wikidata entity Q454019

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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