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Cargill Closing Louisiana Salt Mine Where 2 Died in Roof Collapse February 1, 2021 Cargill is permanently halting operations at a Louisiana salt mine where a roof collapse in mid-December killed two workers, the company announced, and will close the site by 2024. According to a statement issued by the company, Cargill was already planning to end operations at the Avery Island mine by the end of this year because the lease with Avery Island Inc. which owns the land, is ending at that time. The mine is one of three salt mines that Cargill operates around the country. The salt is used to keep roads free of ice during winter. ....
Cargill closing salt mine where 2 died in roof collapse Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Saturday, January 30, 2021 AVERY ISLAND, La. (AP) - Cargill is permanently halting operations at a salt mine where a roof collapse in mid-December killed two workers, the company announced, and will close the site by 2024. According to a statement issued Thursday by the company, Cargill was already planning to end operations at the Avery Island mine by the end of this year because the lease with Avery Island Inc. which owns the land, is ending at that time. The mine is one of three salt mines that Cargill operates around the country. The salt is used to keep roads free of ice during winter. ....
AVERY ISLAND - The operator of a south Louisiana salt mine where two workers died in a collapse last month announced it will expedite the shutdown of the site. ....
Close The private organization, Cargill, announced the end of its operations at the Avery salt mines in Avery Island, Louisiana. They had originally planned to halt the operations at the last quarter of 2021 as the lease with the landowner Avery Island Inc. is expiring at around the same time. (Photo : United States Department of the Interior - Geological Survey Bulletin 845 Guidebook of the Western United States: Part F. Southern Pacific Lines on Wikimedia Commons) While Cargill will no longer produce salt from the mine, there is still a significant amount of work that needs to be done at the facility to safely close the production line, which will likely take until 2024. ....
Representative image The company’s Avery Island, LA salt mine produces deicing salt for the US and Canadian markets. American agribusiness Cargill announced Thursday that it will permanently stop production at its salt mine on Avery Island, LA this year as its lease with the site’s owner, Avery Island Inc., reaches its expiration date on December 31. “For over 24 years, we have been proud to be part of the Avery Island and New Iberia communities,” Sonya Roberts, president of Cargill’s salt business, said in a release. “This was a difficult business decision, but ultimately the right one as we considered the future economics of the mine’s operation and our production capacity until the end of the year. We’d like to thank Avery Island Inc. for their partnership over those years and thank our hard-working employees who have made the mine successful.” ....