Salt from a thousand metres down
Shenhai well was drilled in 1835 to a depth of 1,001 metres. Its wooden derrick and boiling pans are still working.
Shenhai is a preserved nineteenth-century salt works. Its derrick, windlass and boiling house show how brine and gas were lifted and used.
Shenhai well was drilled in 1835 to a depth of 1,001 metres. Its wooden derrick and boiling pans are still working.