Salines de Bex

15 Aug
Posted on Author Georges 0

Family tourism…. first time in ages 🙂

The mines are still in production extracting 100t per day with to mine workers….

Huge underground chamber
Salt water deposit
When you dig 26y vertically in the wrong direction (vertical hole)
Train into the mines
Four floors of mines
Modern way of salt extraction
As in every mine: holy Barbara
Salt crystal on the ceiling
Mining carrot of 800m horizontally
Salt stalagmites
Lift to check the ventilation channels
Old pipes made of tree containing much resin.
Tubing the trees
Tree pipes
Modern salt production: saline water (30% of salt) is heated at 55°C where salt crystals are been created.
Salt is dried and then sorted in two different sizes accordingly to the “fleur des alpes” salt

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