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'''Hafun Salt Factory''' (called initially ''Saline Dante'' in Italian) was the biggest salt factory in the world during the 1930s. It was created in the area of [[Hafun]] (then called "Dante") by the [[Italian Somalians|Italians]] in northern [[Italian Somalia]].<ref>[https://italiacoloniale.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/hafun-la-piu-grande-salina-del-mondo/ The biggest Salt mine in the world (in Italian)]</ref> In 1941 it was destroyed during the [[British Empire|British]] conquest of [[Italian East Africa]], in [[World War II]].
==History==
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In 1930, an [[Italy|Italian]] firm called ''Società Saline e Industrie della Somalia settentrionale Migiurtina'' invested huge capital to exploit salt deposits in Dante and Hurdiyo. The "Hafun Salt Factory" was created and was the main producing facility of sea [[salt]] on the world in the 1930s. By 1933 or 1934, the Dante salt works were producing more than 200,000 metric tons of salt, most of which was exported to [[India]] & the [[Far East]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ahmed|first1=Ahmed Abbas|title=Transformation Towards a Regulated Economy|page=74}}</ref>
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The salt was treated with a total of {{convert|27.0|km|mile|abbr=on}} long [[Ropeway conveyor]] of the salt pans: about {{convert|14.0|km|mile|abbr=on}} {{convert|27.0|km|mile|abbr=on}} were across the lagoon to a station on the opposite bank and then another {{convert|16.0|km|mile|abbr=on}} were to the Treatment plant at Dante.
From there, the cable car went to be up to {{convert|1.5
However, in late 2014, the Udug
==See also==
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