DETROIT – If the residents of Detroit ever tried to dig a hole to China like I did when I was a kid, you probably wouldn’t have made it to China, but you might have eventually reached the secret salty ...

A fire at the site of Detroit’s historic and still-operating salt mine caused evacuations and a hazmat response early Thursday, Aug. 7. Detroit firefighters were called about 1:15 a.m. Aug. 7 to ...

The Detroit Salt Company has shut down following two fires early Thursday morning, according to city officials. At around 1:15 a.m., the fire department received an initial call regarding a fire at ...

Detroit is known for cars and music. Natural resources? Not so much. Yet each day, 30 or so miners descend nearly 1,200 ft. beneath the city to extract salt from remnants of ancient seas that extend ...