Eli5: How did we find salt and metal mines before electronics and technology?

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I have always thought about this. How did our ancestors find salt and metal? Did someone just choose a spot to dig and go at it?

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The early ones were probably visible on the surface, you can see traces of gold or copper in the rock and folow the vein into the mountain.

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