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  2. Halite - Wikipedia

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    The Khewra salt mine is a massive deposit of halite near Islamabad, Pakistan. Salt domes are vertical diapirs or pipe-like masses of salt that have been essentially "squeezed up" from underlying salt beds by mobilization due to the weight of the overlying rock. Salt domes contain anhydrite, gypsum, and native sulfur, in addition to halite and ...

  3. Salt mining - Wikipedia

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    Diorama of an underground salt mine in Germany. Inside Salina Veche, in Slănic, Prahova, Romania.The railing (lower middle) gives the viewer an idea of scale. Before the advent of the modern internal combustion engine and earth-moving equipment, mining salt was one of the most expensive and dangerous of operations because of rapid dehydration caused by constant contact with the salt (both in ...

  4. Prairie Evaporite Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Prairie Evaporite Formation, also known as the Prairie Formation, is a geologic formation of Middle Devonian age that consists primarily of halite (rock salt) and other evaporite minerals. It is present beneath the plains of northern and eastern Alberta , southern Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba in Canada , [ 3 ] and it extends into ...

  5. Himalayan salt - Wikipedia

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    Himalayan salt (coarse) Himalayan salt from Khewra Salt Mine near Khewra, Punjab, Pakistan Himalayan salt is rock salt mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan. The salt, which often has a pinkish tint due to trace minerals, is primarily used as a food additive to replace refined table salt but is also used for cooking and food presentation, decorative lamps, and spa treatments.

  6. Whiskey Island mine - Wikipedia

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    The Whiskey Island mine is a salt mine in downtown Cleveland, Ohio owned by Cargill Deicing Technology. It is one of the largest salt mines in the world [1] and one of two in the Cleveland area, the other being Morton Salt's Fairport Harbor mine to the east. [2] It is also one of three mines in the United States owned by Cargill. [3]

  7. Salt tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Salt tectonics, or halokinesis, or halotectonics, is concerned with the geometries and processes associated with the presence of significant thicknesses of evaporites containing rock salt within a stratigraphic sequence of rocks. This is due both to the low density of salt, which does not increase with burial, and its low strength. [1]

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