Dry Salt Mining

Salt mining is a lot like coal mining. Discovery Channel's "How Stuff Works" series shows you how. Watch more at http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/how-stuff-works/how-stuff-works.html

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• Documentary
• Science & Tech

[xsited1]

This is great, but I'd like to see a pepper mine sometimes.

[demonowl2]

@xsited1 ?...?.... your kiding right?? pepper is a plant

[boomaslang]

@demonowl2 oh dear, you're kidding right?

[WorshipInTruth]

@bobchillaxd Himalayan salt is not as healthy for you as sea salt, for someone like myself with hypertension should stick to the sea salt.

[GuitarTipsAndTricks]

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[bobchillaxd]

I got me some himalayan salt. Way better than sea salt.

[903harman]

@japinoboysf salt is naturally made on rocks, that's why you can see animals licking rocks.

[japinoboysf]

I thought salt come from sea

[alco424]

@JustinFromSydney it's cheaper to mine the salt in this form, than to build, operate and maintain a desalinisation plant....it's also a different chemical form of salt.

[JustinFromSydney]

Why do they need to mine something that is so freely available in the ocean?