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Originally Posted by ernie
The guy that sprays for bugs around our facility was around yesterday for the monthly spray. On my office wall is a sample of rock salt I collected at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. For those that don't know this is where the US defense nuclear waste is disposed. Under a salt dome in New Mexico. It's a hasn't seen water for 225 million years type of thing. It's pretty neat as the dome has movement so they mine out a room fill it with waste and a handful of years later it is completely encased in a salt barrier.
Anywho...the bag you get to put your rock in says "Permian Rock Salt 225 million years old collected from 2150 feet below ground at the disposal level"
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Incidentally, this sounds really cool.
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