Merkers Adventure Mines

Merkers Adventure Mines
Merkers Adventure Mines are a visitor attraction in Krayenberggemeinde in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany, owned and operated by K+S AG of Kassel. They lie near the village of Merkers. The mines have a long history of salt extraction, and hold the record for concealing large amounts of Nazi gold during World War II. A hundred tons of gold and many works of art presumed to be stolen were discovered by the liberating United States Army in 1945. Context The Merkers Mine drops 860m below the surface into the ' Werra-Revier' band of potash bearing salt. There, at a constant temperature of 28C, are 4600 kilometers of tunnels. Visitors are lowered in the hoisting cage at over 10m/ sec (30 km/h) down to the 500m galleries. There they are driven on 20-kilometre long tour of the mine, seeing an underground mining museum, a room where in 1945 the 'Gold und Devisenreserven der Deutschen Reichbank' dubbed the Nazi gold was stored, the world's largest underground bucket- ...
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Potash
Potash () includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.Potash
USGS 2008 Minerals Yearbook The name derives from ''pot ash'', plant ashes or

wood ash

soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing potash before the

Industrial Era

. The word ''

potassium

'' is derived from ''potash''. Potash is produced worldwide in amounts exceeding 90 million

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