If you want to see this I person go to Hutchinson Kansas you can tour a salt mine and its awesome I live in ks and this is one of my favorite weekend getaway spots🥰🥰
Really love the optical sorter, I have seen similar in sorting plastic for recycling. Bet the maintenance crew have fun keeping all the kit working, corrosive, abrasive, dusty etc, and of course the odd rogue item , like a lump of hard rock, or one of the maintenance crews wrench, will find its way in and cause havoc. Good video ,thanks
I like how she says "not a grain of salt is spilled" at 4:34 and you can see the salt dropping around at like 4:36. Nice try How It's Made. Still really good video. That optical processor is amazing.
Are there any studies showing how all the salt spread out on the roads in the past 100years has changed the surrounding environment which may have organisms who are sensitive to changes in salinity?
Especially since most roads are black, I don't get why they would get rid of the black salt... "cause it's undesirable", Yep...racism in the salt world...
Xoft C Ah yeah. That makes sense actually. XD I'd normally have made a comment joking about such, but I guess the context kind of hit me hard there. I didn't consider that and thought it was just an aesthetic thing.
The engineers who set-up that automation line for the Saf-T-Salt must have been laughing all the way to the bank. That's the most ridiculous way to do that I've ever seen.
1/4 km under ground is a massive salt deposit. Massive amounts of water deposited salt there. Puts another perspective on how much our world has changed.
Well, harvesting rock salt in the end. . just turns the seas saltier, as the water cycle will bring it there eventually. It can be renewable with artificial methods, but can be bad if the seas become too salty
+Andrea Quadrati Nah, the seas are so massive and contains so much salt already that the runoff from salt on the road makes no difference at all. Then when you factor in how much fresh water is coming from melting glaciers and the likes, the oceans are actually becoming less salty......until the next ice age.
Could sea salt be used to de-ice roads? I guess it would be too expensive because you'd have to boil it to get salt out, or are there any other methods of removing salt from salt water?
+Marius Ammann Solar salt. Or leftovers from water desalinization. Also sea salt is not usually that expensive. They dry it off in large basins using sunlight and concentrating it until it forms crystals. Still affordable
That’s cool, at 3:56 I recognize these bags and the company name haha it’s where I live. Must’ve gone to the Windsor salt mine, big huge hole in the ground. Crazy I got to see inside of it.
Can't really ride bikes during the winter here, it's difficult enough to walk to be honest. We usually just put gravel on our roads, but it doesn't help much. Especially not when it's warm one day and the snow melts a bit, and then freezes again during the night. The next morning the sidewalks are covered in ice, you could quite literally put on ice-skates and skate around town. It's a nightmare.
Ooh that's lovely. Currently you can't really get anywhere here in Sweden without breaking a leg or two. Road maintenance here is terrible, and side-walks are even worse.
michagan got an inch in about 15 mins before november was even half over and there were 3 snow owls on opening day... it's gonna be a cold one this year...
Here in Minnesota, a state known for its "10,000 lakes", we use too much salt on our roads. Not only does this usually mean that plants and vegetation near roadsides are brown, dry, or dead, but studies are finding that the levels of salinity (salt in the water) in some of these lakes are getting dangerously high. I did a research paper on the topic and some experts say that many of these lakes will not be able to sustain life within the next few decades if we keep salting the shit out of our roads. But hey, that's a problem for a future generation, am I right?
@@endoresu Yep. I buy my vehicles from down south. Funny thing is, they're the same price here but they're rust buckets. My dad has a 2010 Ram and it's rusting to shit. You'd think that auto manufacturers based out of Detroit (which also salts the shit out of their roads) would know how to prevent their $50,000+ trucks from rusting to shit. Man, I fucking hate the Midwest, get me out of here.
I was on the last tour given in the Detroit Salt Mine! I could tell you stories that you could not believe. But I saw FULL SIZED locomotives. They took them apart and down 1 big piece at a time and then reassembled them in this subterranean maze. Over the years I’ve called the mine and asked if I could get a tour again so I could take my kids down there the responses is usually “are you kidding“. They told us we could take a sample so we got off the tram and people picked fist size pieces of salt but my brother and I figured that since we last people we took a 75 pound piece of salt. They didn’t even care. We had it for years and I hate to say it may have been used in the driveway. Stupid kids that we were.
They caught that man on camera stealing salt dust lol. I used to work at a salt factory, it paid like shit but we made extra money on the side by taking handfuls of salt dust, you wouldn't think it would get you much but there's a big demand and most corporations won't sell to individuals. If a scientist or whoever wants some then they can't buy it, they have to make it, and it's hard to make it as fine as the factory stuff. A few grams of the stuff could get you a couple hundred, but it depends who's buying really. Most of us used chewing tobacco so to sneak the salt out we'd pack a fat lip of the stuff and no managers or supervisors would notice. They have to look in out pockets to know we weren't taking any, it was actually a law in my state that they had to examine all of us before we left the building. Some other factory didn't do it and they got shut down so fucking quick, which was great for us because then we were the only salt factory in the state and that meant less people we're stealing and selling salt to individuals. If I stuck at that place I could have retired 20 years ago, but I got caught, a new employee snitched on a few of us and we were all fired the next day. No one liked that little rat, had teeth like a rat too, no one liked home since he was an ass and I guess he was jealous of our friend group. I looked the guy up on Facebook recently and he's part of some pyramid scheme, multi level marketing scam, some shit like that. He's not the one in charge of the scheme, he's the one being scammed. He was always a gullible idiot, the stories I have about fucking with that guy, but that's for another time?
only so much salt can dissolve in water and enter solution. It would have to rain A LOT before it would cause the salt to wash away. Basically you get a crust on the top of the pile of 100% saturation of the rain water that then soaks down onto the salt below and forms a cake/clay like substance and keeps the salt in place. The little bit of water that does run off the pile is insignificant in the grand scheme of the mine, maybe a few tons per year at max.
KrisRaps Simply put they first decide which ones are black and need to be removed using some cameras and special lights. Then the black ones get shot in a different place using compressed air(so they basically push it somewhere else with air) so they don't go to the same place as the white ones. Since it's an automated machine it's really fast so the compressed air shots doesn't get in the way of other salts. It's definitely impressive work. :) You can see just after that part that they note that some black parts do escape the optical sorter but since it's road salt it's fine. The ideal situation is to just get rid off as much of the black stuff as possible.
Salting the roads is terrible, though. Wreaks not only cars, but also bicycles and other motor vehicles. Riding my bike to school through winter is a pain, since it's practically useless by the end of it.
@@kimr8371 True, but sand goes back into the enviroment as it's being used. And the kind of sand you're talking about is too fine for road gritting, that sand is used in concrete construction.
So I get to see the very reason why my vehicle is becoming a rust bucket. AND they started using salt in 1930??? We can make a bomber near invisible to radar but can’t figure out a better alternative than salt for roads.
Those salt crystals at the beginning are quite impressive.
punishedexistence calm down crackhead lol
Those salt rocks give me the shakes
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That salt deposit absolutely blows my mind. The clarity is astounding.
How i'ts made - rust
Read the devblog
Made me LOL
HAAA... ain't that the dang truth 😅
Toyota replaced my tundra frame for free :)
"and now their ready to take it to the street" dam are we selling salt or meth
It's time to cook
Hahahah
@Nicolae Ceaușescu ikr
"There are several sifters in this room" - sounds like me and my mates at the pub :)
The sorting of salt crystals was impressive.
If you want to see this I person go to Hutchinson Kansas you can tour a salt mine and its awesome I live in ks and this is one of my favorite weekend getaway spots🥰🥰
Really love the optical sorter, I have seen similar in sorting plastic for recycling.
Bet the maintenance crew have fun keeping all the kit working, corrosive, abrasive, dusty etc, and of course the odd rogue item , like a lump of hard rock, or one of the maintenance crews wrench, will find its way in and cause havoc.
Good video ,thanks
I like how she says "not a grain of salt is spilled" at 4:34 and you can see the salt dropping around at like 4:36. Nice try How It's Made.
Still really good video. That optical processor is amazing.
LOL. Nice catch. In her defense, she said not "a" grain of salt. Obviously there are many more grains that spilled :)
I came down here to make this comment. You beat me to it lol
There is probably a catch basin, so techically it isn't spilt. It's caught.
Game Sense lmfao I was like that’s bullshit it’s salt
Came to the comments looking for anyone else who spotted it lol.
Still less salt then league of legends community.
Fortnite
minecraft
World of Tanks Blitz
i feel attacked
@@yukongoatslayer7383 insert people whining about Matchmaker here
Are there any studies showing how all the salt spread out on the roads in the past 100years has changed the surrounding environment which may have organisms who are sensitive to changes in salinity?
That optical sorter is a beast. To be able to work with something that fast
Segregation in the salt world.
Especially since most roads are black, I don't get why they would get rid of the black salt... "cause it's undesirable", Yep...racism in the salt world...
Mario Mastar The black material is not salt just rocks and dirt trapped in salt. The more dirt in the salt, the lower the grade of the salt.
Xoft C
Ah yeah. That makes sense actually. XD I'd normally have made a comment joking about such, but I guess the context kind of hit me hard there. I didn't consider that and thought it was just an aesthetic thing.
You're just salty
its a bird! its a plane! No, its Rannndy!!
I'm the old man from Home Alone with the shovel. You think I'm a creep? I'm trying to keep you all safe so you don't get hurt by slipping on the ice!
Lol, I like how they mine deposits of ancient salt to be thrown away by the roadsides XD
g43654 So you can drive to work safely.
That's basically how almost everything in your house was made.
@Shaun Mason Music and have your car rust away whilst doing it.
Well I don't know why everybody's getting triggered at you I agree who gets to decide what kind of ancient stuff is special and what isn't
Gasoline (petrol) ... 🤷♂️
i crave this mineral
oh my god i'm having flashbacks
It's got electrolytes...
Came for the salt...
Stayed for the pun...
I need more details regarding computer system to separate white and black salt
It can be adapted to sort out green potato chips
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Yashsvi Dixit Be careful. The Muslim population is exploding.
It's a joy to watch us tear through non-renewable resources like this.
That's gotta be the safest lot to drive in during the winter xD
The engineers who set-up that automation line for the Saf-T-Salt must have been laughing all the way to the bank. That's the most ridiculous way to do that I've ever seen.
Where can a civilian purchase large fist sized chunks of clear rock salt like that?
eBay. Look for Halite or salt crystal
Quartz looks better
What if it rains? in the storing area?
The salt would get wet.
Lol, I was thinking the same thing.
There is so mch salt that it cannot just dissolve away ^^
then you will have brine for thanksgiving turkey!
1/4 km under ground is a massive salt deposit. Massive amounts of water deposited salt there. Puts another perspective on how much our world has changed.
How about that optical sorter! Shooting jets of air at the black salt. Pretty impressive
What do they do to the salt piles at the surface if it rains?
"The darker bits are seen as undesirable." In life as well, narrator lady, in life as well.
Lighter bits move forward, though some darker bits are acceptable...
Jimmy neutron : It’s SODIUM CHLORIDE
Other dude: No, It’s SALT.
I guess you can say that these workers are salty
Haha
Is rock salt non renewable?
Is it bad for the environment to spread on the ground?
Well, harvesting rock salt in the end. . just turns the seas saltier, as the water cycle will bring it there eventually. It can be renewable with artificial methods, but can be bad if the seas become too salty
+Andrea Quadrati Nah, the seas are so massive and contains so much salt already that the runoff from salt on the road makes no difference at all. Then when you factor in how much fresh water is coming from melting glaciers and the likes, the oceans are actually becoming less salty......until the next ice age.
+69aussieguy Depends. Sure, oceans are big. But here we speak of more restricted zones. Seas and lakes are more likely to be affected.
Could sea salt be used to de-ice roads? I guess it would be too expensive because you'd have to boil it to get salt out, or are there any other methods of removing salt from salt water?
+Marius Ammann Solar salt. Or leftovers from water desalinization. Also sea salt is not usually that expensive. They dry it off in large basins using sunlight and concentrating it until it forms crystals. Still affordable
0:33 YUGE
I FUVKIN KNOW RIGHT WHAT THE HELL LADY GET ENGLISH LESSONS
*Optical sorter, now that's impressive!*
That’s cool, at 3:56 I recognize these bags and the company name haha it’s where I live. Must’ve gone to the Windsor salt mine, big huge hole in the ground. Crazy I got to see inside of it.
Can't really ride bikes during the winter here, it's difficult enough to walk to be honest. We usually just put gravel on our roads, but it doesn't help much. Especially not when it's warm one day and the snow melts a bit, and then freezes again during the night.
The next morning the sidewalks are covered in ice, you could quite literally put on ice-skates and skate around town.
It's a nightmare.
That mine was so cool to see.
Ooh that's lovely. Currently you can't really get anywhere here in Sweden without breaking a leg or two. Road maintenance here is terrible, and side-walks are even worse.
the optical sorter seems insane
Will this affect the saltiness of our lakes and oceans when these mined salts will be flush from our roads with the rain
NO...
So the salt world is just like in the real world "The Darker Bits are less desirable" LMAO
@Abiyah Rina They're actually extinct.
"YUGE crystalized caverns!" Who is she, our president?
most of Australia it never has, but there are a very few limited places it does actually snow
Texas: THIS WAS A THING THE WHOLE TIME? WHY DIDNT WE DO THIS!!
You obviously aren't from Texas
" the salt moves from the crusher onto the conveyor belt, there, the salt moves directly into McDonald's fry stations all across the world"
I found this surprisingly easy to "unload my salty cargo" to ;)
I eat this stuff sometimes.
michagan got an inch in about 15 mins before november was even half over and there were 3 snow owls on opening day... it's gonna be a cold one this year...
Yes thank you TH-cam algorithm thanks for sharing this to a Texan in 5inches of snow and no power
I thought KCl was used on roads, do they still use sodium chloride for that?
Grind up people from the youtube comment section.
We sure are a terrible breed.
Nice show
I was taken to one of the school staff for licking rock salt off the ground, I was dumb and didn't know!
Hey... Safe-T-Salt! I just opened a bag of that about 10 minutes ago.
Apparently salting roads these days is actually more harmful for the environment. So countries opt for pebbles/sand.
Here in Minnesota, a state known for its "10,000 lakes", we use too much salt on our roads. Not only does this usually mean that plants and vegetation near roadsides are brown, dry, or dead, but studies are finding that the levels of salinity (salt in the water) in some of these lakes are getting dangerously high. I did a research paper on the topic and some experts say that many of these lakes will not be able to sustain life within the next few decades if we keep salting the shit out of our roads. But hey, that's a problem for a future generation, am I right?
Salt also destroys cars
@@endoresu Yep. I buy my vehicles from down south. Funny thing is, they're the same price here but they're rust buckets. My dad has a 2010 Ram and it's rusting to shit. You'd think that auto manufacturers based out of Detroit (which also salts the shit out of their roads) would know how to prevent their $50,000+ trucks from rusting to shit. Man, I fucking hate the Midwest, get me out of here.
@@TheGeekwad Nothing will change. Why would they want their cars to last? They are happy selling you a new one every 15 years.
I was on the last tour given in the Detroit Salt Mine! I could tell you stories that you could not believe. But I saw FULL SIZED locomotives. They took them apart and down 1 big piece at a time and then reassembled them in this subterranean maze. Over the years I’ve called the mine and asked if I could get a tour again so I could take my kids down there the responses is usually “are you kidding“. They told us we could take a sample so we got off the tram and people picked fist size pieces of salt but my brother and I figured that since we last people we took a 75 pound piece of salt. They didn’t even care. We had it for years and I hate to say it may have been used in the driveway. Stupid kids that we were.
The optical sorter is a technological marvel.
Salting roads should be illegal. It rusts cars.
Rock salt: Is used to melt ice
Also rock salt: *looks like ice before processed*
Me: You were the thing that you swore to destroy
How do they make potassium chloride road salt?
It's exactly the same process, but they mine potass instead of halite.
no blacks in the salt word either? Damn education at its finest.
They caught that man on camera stealing salt dust lol. I used to work at a salt factory, it paid like shit but we made extra money on the side
by taking handfuls of salt dust, you wouldn't think it would get you much but there's a big demand and most corporations won't sell to individuals. If a scientist or whoever wants some then they can't buy it, they have to make it, and it's hard to make it as fine as the factory stuff. A few grams of the stuff could get you a couple hundred, but it depends who's buying really. Most of us used chewing tobacco so to sneak the salt out we'd pack a fat lip of the stuff and no managers or supervisors would notice. They have to look in out pockets to know we weren't taking any, it was actually a law in my state that they had to examine all of us before we left the building. Some other factory didn't do it and they got shut down so fucking quick, which was great for us because then we were the only salt factory in the state and that meant less people we're stealing and selling salt to individuals. If I stuck at that place I could have retired 20 years ago, but I got caught, a new employee snitched on a few of us and we were all fired the next day. No one liked that little rat, had teeth like a rat too, no one liked home since he was an ass and I guess he was jealous of our friend group. I looked the guy up on Facebook recently and he's part of some pyramid scheme, multi level marketing scam, some shit like that.
He's not the one in charge of the scheme, he's the one being scammed. He was always a gullible idiot, the stories I have about fucking with that guy, but that's for another time?
You said the same thing about graphite.
What effect would salt have on plants and vegetation
Salty tomatoes.
Respect optical sorter!
Why not make a more "saltier" mixture for asphault rather than salting roads? The salt always blows away towards the left and right side of cars
They don't salt the roads in Australia?
Does it never snow there?
Proper road salt contains a decent amount of grit as well as pure sodium chloride.
That place must smell of salt so much..
It probably burns to breathe in there
2:31 has me in stitches.
So what happens to the black salt? Does it go the way of the baby male chickens?
Even is Salt Factories, Racism is at an all time high
so those guys work for the mighty jingles?
Triggered black salt is removed, ' dark bits'. Omg Zucker. Zucker were are you?
Damn that's one heavy load 😉
im useing this vid for school, HI CLASSMATES!
Hello I'm using this vid for entertainment.
I always am sitting there like: "yea, store salt outside where it can rain n stuff, great idea"
only so much salt can dissolve in water and enter solution. It would have to rain A LOT before it would cause the salt to wash away. Basically you get a crust on the top of the pile of 100% saturation of the rain water that then soaks down onto the salt below and forms a cake/clay like substance and keeps the salt in place. The little bit of water that does run off the pile is insignificant in the grand scheme of the mine, maybe a few tons per year at max.
I Didn`t Get How that machine Can unable the black mineral going forward
Yeah, that's very impressive
Learn english please. My head is spinning and my eyes fell out trying to read your comment.
KrisRaps Simply put they first decide which ones are black and need to be removed using some cameras and special lights. Then the black ones get shot in a different place using compressed air(so they basically push it somewhere else with air) so they don't go to the same place as the white ones. Since it's an automated machine it's really fast so the compressed air shots doesn't get in the way of other salts. It's definitely impressive work. :)
You can see just after that part that they note that some black parts do escape the optical sorter but since it's road salt it's fine. The ideal situation is to just get rid off as much of the black stuff as possible.
Rei Lumiere grammar nazi
V for vendetta Why the fuck are you calling me a grammar nazi? I didn't correct anyone. God some people are dumb.
You should watch Key and Peele’s Black Ice after this video loool wow
In before Huggbees makes a video on this.
Earth: Spends millions of years making salt, oil, ect.
Humans: Yeah... Were going to be taking that.
Salting the roads is terrible, though. Wreaks not only cars, but also bicycles and other motor vehicles. Riding my bike to school through winter is a pain, since it's practically useless by the end of it.
I know this is an old comment but would you rather get hit and killed by a car that spun out of control from the ice
my blood pressure is just rising looking at this...
As soon as she said the optical scanner has done it's job, you see a black salt rock fall through. hahaha
You could go through all this to get salt, or you could just play Bastion in Overwatch.
What she didn't say is that it's under Lake Erie
Is this one of the many tasks that a Geologist may end up doing?
well geologists were probably the ones to find the salt deposits. then manufacture people did the rest.
Which came first - the ocean or the salt?
Both.
how is everything not rusted?
..deposited millions of years ago, as recrystalised run off from ancient road-salters, only to begin the cycle again
I really wish people used sand instead of salt. It's better for the enviroment.
Sand isn't infinite either. A lot of people are unaware but there is currently a sand shortage
@@kimr8371 True, but sand goes back into the enviroment as it's being used. And the kind of sand you're talking about is too fine for road gritting, that sand is used in concrete construction.
@@thegeneralissimo470 um what other type of sand do you know of?
Where I live in the USA it NEVER snows and road salt NEVER gets used.
So there!!!
Where I live in the USA, they use salt all the damn time in winter and it dissolves your car.
0:30 "YUGE crystalline caverns" xD
So I get to see the very reason why my vehicle is becoming a rust bucket. AND they started using salt in 1930??? We can make a bomber near invisible to radar but can’t figure out a better alternative than salt for roads.
Used first in the 1930s but it wasn’t until the 1960s that its use “SPREAD”. Oh dear, do tell me that was an accident.
Ahh sodium chlorine....
No thats salt...
Why 420P?
Doesn't this rust the cars that drive over the salty roads
Anyone else feel like they wanna taste it?
it transfers the salt to the primary crusher or else it gets the hose again...
I really want the music from this video.
What about the towns far from the border?
So you could just lick the walls of that cavern, and it'd be salty?
Safe to assume so.