About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt ... tour. "I don't really have anything to compare it to." The ...

Before this year, Erie County has also bought up to 150,000 tons of salt from Compass Minerals, which is headquartered in Kansas but has an active salt mine in Hamilton, Ont. After the Buy ...

"I'm not sure that people connect the large piles of salt to the massive mining operation happening 2,000 feet below the lake." Workers can enter the mine by taking a four-minute elevator ride.