Salt Mines Under Detroit
By Mark Flippo
Detroit’s salt mines are like an underground city within the city. It is a massive expanse of 1,500 acres and over 100 miles of roads right under everyone’s feet. It stretches from Dearborn, located in the northwest of Detroit’s metropolitan area, and known to automobile lovers as Henry Ford’s birthplace, via Melvindale to Allen Park in the southwest. the whole state of Michigan and beyond – and buried the salt layer. Today, the Great Lakes rest on the basalt rock and the salt layer, some 1200 feet below, being the largest salt deposit in the world – some 71 trillion tons of unmined salt remain according to some estimates.
In early China, for example, salt coins were a popular means of payment and salt cakes served the same purpose in the Mediterranean. The Romans often paid their soldiers in salt – that’s why we’re still using the term salary today from Latin ‘sal’ – salt. The company began salt production in the fall of 1998 and currently provides not table salt but road deicing salt.
Since Christians are the salt of the earth, we should not be buried so deep that people have a hard time finding Jesus in us! In this lesson there are still 71 trillion tons left to find! It sure sounds like God is trying to tell us we have a lot more brothers and sisters out there for Him to lead us to. Get your shoes on or your computer handy we have a lot of work to do!
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By Mark Flippo
Detroit’s salt mines are like an underground city within the city. It is a massive expanse of 1,500 acres and over 100 miles of roads right under everyone’s feet. It stretches from Dearborn, located in the northwest of Detroit’s metropolitan area, and known to automobile lovers as Henry Ford’s birthplace, via Melvindale to Allen Park in the southwest. the whole state of Michigan and beyond – and buried the salt layer. Today, the Great Lakes rest on the basalt rock and the salt layer, some 1200 feet below, being the largest salt deposit in the world – some 71 trillion tons of unmined salt remain according to some estimates.
In early China, for example, salt coins were a popular means of payment and salt cakes served the same purpose in the Mediterranean. The Romans often paid their soldiers in salt – that’s why we’re still using the term salary today from Latin ‘sal’ – salt. The company began salt production in the fall of 1998 and currently provides not table salt but road deicing salt.
Since Christians are the salt of the earth, we should not be buried so deep that people have a hard time finding Jesus in us! In this lesson there are still 71 trillion tons left to find! It sure sounds like God is trying to tell us we have a lot more brothers and sisters out there for Him to lead us to. Get your shoes on or your computer handy we have a lot of work to do!
http://moderndayparablesrcf.com