salt production
Evaporating sea water
Salt production is the extraction or manufacture of salt for human use.
Methods include mining rock salt deposits, evaporating seawater or brine in shallow ponds, and solution mining where water dissolves underground salt formations.
The region's economy depended on salt production for centuries.
Salt production has historically been controlled by governments as a source of revenue.
- brineWater saturated with sodium
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
- haliteCrystalline sodium chloride ore
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- coastal regionsAreas bordering oceans
saltern · seasoning · mineral deposits · de-icing · chemical manufacturing · arid climates · fishing industry · water softening · ponds · agriculture · seawater · pans · medicine · crust · sodium · mineral · solar · refining
- salthalite, sodium chloride, fleur de sel, saltworks, brine
- Kentucky historyDaniel Boone, Henry Clay, statehood, Cumberland Gap, border state
- Early Venicelagoons, doges, ancient canals, refugees, early churches
- maritime industriestankers, yacht charter, cargo transport, chartering, dredging
- Caribbean tradebanana, bauxite, sugar cane, coffee beans, cigars
- Caribbean farmingsugarcane, bananas, banana, plantains, cassava
salt productionsugar production
Creating crystalline sweetener
desalination · water purification · coal mining · oil extraction · gold mining