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Why salt mines are perfect underground archives

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Mining massive salt deposits creates enormous, completely dry, and structurally stable underground caverns. Rather than abandoning them, corporations and governments lease these vast subterranean vaults to securely store everything from historic movie reels to highly classified documents.

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