In the salt mines (1970-1980)

View of the administration building of one of the mines, workers and employees going to their shift.

The face of one of the miners behind the cage bars.

Faces of the miners.

Faces of the miners entering the cage to descend into the face.

Miners in the cage, the cage begins to descend.

Miners exit the cage.

Miners in the cage, faces of the miners.

The cage is raised, the miners exit.

Miners exit the cage.

Faces of the miners of the next shift.

Miners of the next shift pass through the face, natural patterns on the walls of an artificially created salt cave.

The work of the salt combine, part of the process of salt extraction by the mine method.

One of the units of the salt combine rotates, patterns on the walls of the cave.

The salt combine in a cut-out cave.

The face of the salt combine operator.

The operator switches the toggle switches on the combine dashboard.

The process of salt extraction using a combine, the rotation of the crushing part of the combine.

Miners in a salt cave.

Faces of miners.

Panorama of a part of a salt cave with broken side adits, patterns on the ceiling and walls of the cave.

Extracted salt on a conveyor belt.

Views of waste heaps and a nearby industrial salt processing plant (panorama).