Stone Age Britons extracted salt from seawater using industrial-style processes more than 5500 years ago. The discovery means people in Great Britain were producing salt thousands of years earlier ...

Salt may be the most routine ingredient in the world. It would be difficult to find a kitchen without it in some form. Table salt is the most common, and it comes from extracted salt from underground ...

Saltworks that extracted salt from the sea were one of the major industries in almost every town on Cape Cod with as many as 440 in the early to mid-1800s. The saltworks were quite advanced and ...

Himalayan salt and sea salt have different mineral compositions based on their region of origin. Both salts are more natural than table salt, but may contain heavy metals or microplastics. Be mindful ...

In the southern Russian Daghestani village of Kvankhidatl, people extract salt using a unique ancient method. They claim they produce the purest and most delicious salt in the world.

Compass Minerals has made several splashy announcements in the last year about its lithium operations on the Great Salt Lake, including two “binding” contracts to supply a staggering amount of the ...