It is laid out for the public in 14 breath-taking galleries, pun intended. Visits to the salt mine are recommended to treat some respiratory infections, after all! In these galleries, you can see motifs, sculptures, and busts carved of salt, including a bust of Decebal the last King of the Dacians. These were the ancestors of the Romanian people.
The galleries are over 55 meters high, which is taller than the height of the Statue of Liberty without the foundation. The true credit for discovering the salt in Khewra goes to his horse.
A brave soldier tried it himself and discovered the salty flavor. Today, the Khewra salt mines are the second largest in the world. They turn out , tons of salt a year.
The output over its lifetime is estimated to be million tons. The mine is feet deep with 11 stories, the mine is filled with tunnels that run nearly half a mile into the mountain. This Canadian salt mine holds the distinction of being the largest salt mine in the world. It is located feet under Lake Huron.
The salt was once deposited million years ago by an ocean that covered the Great Lakes Basin. The mine has been in operation since The biggest purpose for this salt is a life-saving one. The rock salt produced from the mine is sold to retailers all over North America to spread in the winter snow and ice. This helps prevent black ice which causes many wintry accidents and fatalities. The salt is also sold to make industrial and cleaning products.
Estimates put the amount of salt within the Khewra Salt Mine at up to million tons. The success of the Khewra Salt Mine has obviously given it a special place in the culture of the region - and made it an incredibly popular destination for tourists. In fact, the Khewra Salt Mine has become world famous attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. There are two ways in which salt can be produced: by extracting it from underground salt mines solid salt or by evaporating salt water.
Before it ends up on your dinner table, it also goes through a refining process in order to remove any other minerals except for sodium chloride and in order to remove any impurities. Sometimes anticaking agents are added in order to absorb moisture and often iodine is also included as this helps consumers to prevent ending up with an iodine deficiency.
It is absolutely essential to include salt in your diet as it plays an important role in muscle and nerve contractions as well as a variety of biological functions. On the other hand - too much salt can also lead to heart disease and high blood pressure. Many people have turned to pink Himalayan salt as they believe that it is a healthier alternative and because they believe that too much table salt can potentially be harmful to their health.
It is one of the largest and oldest salt mines to be found in the world. The salt that can be harvested from this mine has apparently been formed from the evaporation of large bodies of water in ancient times.
It is believed that Himalayan salt is composed of remnants of the primal, original sea, as it comes from salt mines located more than feet deep below the Himalayan Mountain range. It has, therefore, experienced tremendous pressure over hundreds and thousands of years and is said to be extremely pure. It is much more natural than table salt, as it has been minimally processed and hand-extracted, which makes it free of additives and also an unrefined product.
It is also mostly comprised of sodium chloride, but because of the natural harvesting process, it also contains many other trace elements and minerals that are not included in regular table salt. It is estimated that it contains up to 84 different trace elements and minerals. It is these minerals and especially iron which gives it its pink color.
As mentioned above, both pink salt and regular table salt contain mostly sodium chloride, but pink salt has up to 84 other trace elements and minerals. These include minerals such as calcium, potassium, molybdenum, and strontium. Studies show that table salt contains more sodium and that Himalayan salt contains more iron, magnesium, potassium, and calcium.
Muhammad Qamar : Obviously, working in the mine 30 to 40 feet underground is hard. But we get paid well and on time. Narrator : Only half of the mountain's salt is actually mined. The rest is used for structural support so the chambers don't collapse.
Tractors haul the mined salt blocks out of the mountain. Each day, miners excavate over 1, tons of salt, or about the weight of elephants. Outside, they search for the blocks with the best shape and coloring to send to manufacturers. Once picked, the blocks are loaded up on trucks either by hand or crane and sent across Pakistan. Historically, Pakistan couldn't process this raw pink salt, so much of it was exported to India cheaply.
India would treat the salt, label it as made in India, and sell it at a premium. Pakistan saw little of the profits. In , a social media campaign calling for the end of salt exports to India went viral. That same year, the Pakistani government banned all salt exports to India. The goal? Returning the profits to Pakistan. Waqas Panjwani : Twenty-three percent of Pakistan's rock salt was exported to India as raw material. Then it was re-exported overseas to the same market we are exporting to right now.
The government's decision will definitely benefit us. Narrator : But some Pakistani salt exporters suffered. They didn't speak English and couldn't meet Europe's tough import standards. Only about a dozen exporters saw an opportunity to sell products under Pakistani labels directly to Europe. Muhammad was one of them. Every month, he purchases tons of salt from the mine for his company, Himalayan Decor International.
Muhammad Imran : From the Khewra mine, salt is loaded onto several trucks that travel on the motorway and bring it to our factory, which is in Lahore on Defence Road which is km away. Imran : Natural salt lamps, geometrical shapes, animal salt licks, eating and cooking plates. We are also making wall tiles. We are also making a lot of salt for food.
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