On a rainy spring morning along Cayuga Lake’s east shore, on the surface the Cayuga Salt Mine looks almost quiet, with a few trucks, a headframe and rail lines stretching north. But 2,300 feet below, crews are carving out the salt that keeps winter roads drivable across the Northeast.
Cargill’s Lansing operation is part of the company’s de-icing division, focused solely on road salt.
Between the Lansing mine and its larger sister operation in Cleveland, “We produce probably 25% of the de-icing road salt that gets used in the Northeast and throughout the country,” Director of Mine Operations Ryan Wease said…