Amazing salt mountain in Germany
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/amazing-salt-mountain-in-germany.htmlMonte Cali is located in the east of the German state of Hesse. In fact, this is not a mountain, but a dump of sodium chloride, or ordinary table salt. It is a by-product from the extraction of potash - potassium oxide. For a hundred years, its extraction has been the main industrial branch of the region; here is the world's largest potash mine. In the process of extracting potash, the output is a mixture of potash and chloride: for every ton of potash, there are several tons of table salt.
The mountain began to grow in 1973, today it is more than 200 meters high and in January 2014 covered an area of 93 hectares. Monte Cali contains about 188 million tons of salt. Every hour it increases by 900 tons, and every year - by 6.4 million tons.
The locals call the mountain "Kalimanjaro". For the environment, this dump, by the way, is quite harmful - salt pollutes the soil, rivers and groundwater of the region.
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Source: amusingplanet.com
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