world salt supply

Either from brines (natural brines of commercial importance are found in the Dead Sea, Austria, France, Germany, India, the United States, and the United Kingdom) or from rock salt.

Where I live, they used to get the salt in graduation houses (wrongly often named salinas) - now used only for 'inhaling':




(pics not from the spa I live in but the next one, 5 miles away)

Salt mines also to be found in England, and salt has been mined here since Roman times, or for about two thousand years.

Places in Cheshire like Northwich, Middlewich and Nantwich owe (the suffix of) their names to the old name for salt.

never realised salt could become such a topic
very interesting reading everyone
thanks