Morton Salt and Cargill have been mining salt along Lake Erie since the late 1950s, taking advantage of relatively shallow salt beds that date back 400 million years when present-day Ohio was part of a vast inland sea located closer to the Tropics.
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Morton Salt and Cargill have been mining salt along Lake Erie since the late 1950s, taking advantage of relatively shallow salt beds that date back 400 million years when present-day Ohio was part of a vast inland sea located closer to the Tropics.
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