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December 27, 2006
RESTOF, N.Y. - The lack of snow in the Northeast has forced a rock salt company to temporarily lay off more than 150 workers at its western New York mine.
American Rock Salt has told employees at its Livingston County operations not to show up for at least the next three weeks. The company's chairman says the mining production workers could be back on the job sooner, but only if the region gets some significant snowfall.
The company sends salt all across the northeastern United States, and currently has a stockpile of hundreds of thousands of tons of salt. Company officials say they had to shut down mining operations because there's just no place left to put the salt at its property near Mount Morris, 33 miles south of Rochester.
The company says about 80 employees remain on the job.
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