To ensure timely delivery for all customers, we encourage steady, proactive ordering throughout the season. Large, last‑minute orders placed during storms can strain delivery capacity and delay service. By ordering on a regular basis, and maintaining open communication with our team, you help us anticipate needs, balance demand across regions, and keep roads safe and communities resilient without interruption.
To ensure timely delivery for all customers, we encourage steady, proactive ordering throughout the season. Large, last‑minute orders placed during storms can strain delivery capacity and delay service. By ordering on a regular basis, and maintaining open communication with our team, you help us anticipate needs, balance demand across regions, and keep roads safe and communities resilient without interruption.

Driver Loading Instructions

First Time Here?
Please follow these steps carefully.

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🧾 Before Loading

  1. Get a Salt Card at the Transportation Office window.
  2. Sign in on the sheet at the desk.
  3. Review the Mine Map posted in the office.
  4. Untarp your truck

🚛 Driving Directions

  1. Drive straight past the salt pile until you reach a stop sign.
  2. Turn left behind the salt pile. Use Lane 1 (next to the salt pile).
  3. Use Radio Channel 19 for help or press the black intercom button on the yellow call box at the first card station.
  4. Let the operator know it’s your first time loading.
  5. At the first set of boxes, scan your Salt Card (barcode facing up).
  6. Answer the questions on screen:
    • Are you untarped?
    • Dispatch Number (6 digit number)
    • Do you have a pup trailer?
    • Requested weight in lbs. (e.g., 25 tons = 50,000 lbs.)
    • Confirm your information is correct

⚙️ Loading

  1. Use Lane 1 (next to the salt pile). If closed, use Lane 2.
  2. Wait for the Green light above the lane to move forward.
  3. Pull under the chute and scan your card again.
  4. Salt loads in 3 equal drops
    • (Pup trailers = 1 drop)
  5. Position trailer under the chute.
  6. Before each drop, pull the horizontal cable.
  7. Follow the lights:
    • 🔴 🟢 Red and Green lights flashing – Ready to load
    • 🔴 Red = Loading
    • 🟢 Green = Transaction Complete.

🧾 After Loading

  1. When finished, pull up to the stainless-steel box to get your Salt Ticket.
  2. Wait until printing is complete before tearing it off (takes 1–2 minutes).
  3. Review your ticket (Check to and from locations, truck number and tonnage):
    • ✅ Correct? → Retarp and exit.
    • ⚠️ Incorrect? → Park near the retarping area and go to the Transportation Office for help.
Undercutting
The extraction process begins with undercutting the mine walls level with the floor. A self-propelled undercutter carves a massive channel at the base of the deposit and across the entire room. This channel allows for a more efficient explosive blast and also helps create a smooth mine floor.
Drilling
Once the mine wall is undercut a special drilling machine bores small holes into the face of the salt. Then miners will prime these holes with explosive materials and prepare to start blasting.
Blasting
Miners ignite the explosives, creating a blast that dislodges 800 to 900 tons of rock salt in less than three seconds. The depth of the mine and cushion of the overburden absorbs the blast vibrations, preventing any surface damage to immediate and surrounding areas.
Loading
Huge front-end loaders transport the blasted rock salt to the primary crusher. Loaders dump their loads of salt into a powerful spinning crusher, where large pieces are quickly crushed and screened down to small pieces. The salt is then transported to the hoisting shaft where skip hoists bring the loads to the surface in a matter of seconds.
Transportation
Upon reaching the surface, the salt is stored here at the mine in our huge stockpile where it is loaded and sent out to customers by rail car or by truck.
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