The demand for food salt is constant, each person consumes on average between three and seven grams of salt per day. Not including French fries 🍟
Salt mining and processing relies on the same process as extracting other soft underground minerals, like oil, coal, shale, and potash.
According to Morton Salt, North America’s largest producer of salt: “Equipment is used to load and haul the salt to machines that crush and feed the salt onto a conveyor belt.
The above ground processing of the rock salt consists of screening the mined salt into various marketable sizes by sorting through mechanically operated screens. When separated, each size is conveyed to its individual storage bin to await packaging for shipment or to be loaded as bulk salt into railroad cars, trucks, river barges or lake boats for shipment to customers.”
Brings new meaning to: If it goes on a rock plant 😎 #AskUnified
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3moCopper! Fun fact: It is the official metal in Arizona since 2015 thanks to a great teacher and her students from Copper Creek Elementary School