It's a New York institution, open since 1892, and the worn, subterranean spa has a Spartan look and feel imagine a small town aquarium crossed with a mining shaft.

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Potash is a soft rock, which is extracted from sedimentary sea beds formed by evaporation of ancient seas, which is mined via conventional shaft mining like gold and silver.

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