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The 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge Khewra Salt Mines Railway track laid during the British era is used to bring salt out of the mine in rail cars. [35] Khewra salt is Pakistan's best known rock salt. [11] It is used for cooking, as bath salt, as brine [30] and as a raw material for many industries, including a soda ash plant set up by AkzoNobel in ...
Khewra (Punjabi / Urdu: کھیوڑہ) is the second most populated city of Jhelum District and the neighbor city of Pind Dadan Khan in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. [1] The city is administratively subdivided into two union councils [1] and is the location of the Khewra Salt Mine. The population of Khewra city is about 35,000 (or 80,000).
The Salt Range and Khewra Salt Mine: Punjab: 2016 v, viii (mixed) The geological formation of Salt Range formed 800 million years ago with the evaporation of a shallow sea, resulting in thick deposits of rock salt.
Brent Hofacker / 500px - Getty Images. Sea Salt. Derived from evaporated seawater, sea salt comes in many varieties and origins. ... Pink Himalayan Salt. Mined from the Khewra Salt Mine in ...
A small masjid made of salt bricks inside the Khewra salt mine complex. The Khewra Salt Mine (or Mayo Salt Mine) is located in Khewra, north of Pind Dadan Khan, [14] an administrative subdivision of Jhelum District, which rises from the Indo-Gangetic Plain. [15] It is Pakistan's largest and oldest salt mine [16] and the world's second largest.
Salt has been mined in the region since 320 BC. The Khewra Salt Mines are among the world's oldest and biggest salt mines. Salt is mined at Khewra in an underground area of about 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi). Khewra salt mine has an estimated total of 220 million tonnes of rock salt deposits. The current production from the mine is 325,000 ...
The modern Physiotherapy Center was founded in 1979 on the site of salt mines that were excavated by archaeologists in the 1970s. ... Legend has it a local child carved these pictures inside ...
The Salt Range contains the great mines of Khewra, Kalabagh and Warcha which yield vast supplies of salt. [1] Coal of a medium quality is also found here. [1] The Salt Range starts from the Bakralla and Tilla Jogian ridges in the east and extends to the west of River Jhelum. [3]