The story of this brutal winter may best be told 60 miles east of Buffalo, where a mine runs as deep as the Empire State Building is tall. ... New York salt mines try to meet winter's demand.

Emergency crews in upstate New York on Thursday morning freed all 17 workers who had been trapped in an elevator at a salt mine about 800 feet below ground. "Extremely relieved and happy to say ...

Rescue crews freed 17 miners in upstate New York Thursday morning after they spent a terrifying 10 hours down in one of the world’s deepest salt mines. The first four of the Cargill Salt mine… ...

Rescuers used a crane-lowered basket to retrieve all 17 men from a shaft at a Cargill rock salt mine near Lansing, New York, by 8:30 a.m. Thursday, more than 10 hours after the elevator became stuck.

The would-be salt kings of New York City, Joe Bucci Jr. and Joe Bucci Sr. of American Rock Salt, explain the Buy American Salt Act and how they’ve mined for four generations in Livingston County.

Emergency crews were working Friday morning to free the remaining miners trapped in an elevator more than 70 stories below ground in upstate New York, officials said. The Ithaca Fire Department ...

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Seventeen miners trapped in one of the world's deepest salt mines were rescued Thursday morning, ending a 10-hour ordeal that began when their elevator broke down 900 feet underground.

All 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator underground at Cargill’s Cayuga Salt Mine in New York have been rescued, a Cargill spokesman says.