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    Eksploatacja soli potasowych w Małopolsce wschodniej w czasach II Rzeczpospolitej - przyczynek do historii górnictwa solnego na Podkarpaciu
    (Wydawnictwa AGH, 2010) Poborska-Młynarska, Katarzyna; Andrusikiewicz, Wacław
    Potash deposits are not presently extracted in Poland. However, during the interwar period (1921-1939), the extraction and processing of potassium and magnesium salts - mainly sylvinite, langbeinitite and kainitite - took place in eastern Małopolska. The potash mines, operated by Society for the Exploitation of Potassium Salt (TESP), existed in Kałusz, Stebnik and Hołyń. Salt was extracted by a method of chamber mining with the use of drilling and blasting techniques, sometimes with rock or hydraulic fill transported from the processing plant. In 1938 the total output of the mines reached 567 000 tonnes of salt, with 2300 people employed. The outbreak of World War II put a definite end to this episode of Polish potash mining.