Usually means: Underground excavation for extracting salt.
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  1. salt mine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. salt mine: Collins English Dictionary
  3. salt mine: Vocabulary.com
  4. salt-mine, salt mine: Wordnik
  5. salt mine: Wiktionary
  6. salt mine: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. salt mine: Dictionary.com
  8. Salt Mine, Salt mine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. salt mine: Rhymezone
  10. salt mine: FreeDictionary.org
  11. salt mine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. salt mine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. salt mine: Encyclopedia

(Note: See salt_mines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (salt mine)

noun:  Any mine used for the extraction of salt.
noun:  (by extension) Any laborious work situation, especially in a confined space.
noun:  (Internet slang, derogatory) An abundance of indignation felt by one person or a group of people due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat; a gold mine (sense 3) of salt (noun sense 11).

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