The deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka and Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century. This major industrial undertaking has royal status and is the oldest of its type in Europe. The site is a ...

There is a revival of sorts in terms of using rock salt. Most are still sticking to regular table salt. Rock salt has been ...

Salt is one of the most important things that give flavour to our food. Did you know the prices of some of the costliest ...

The mine was opened as a potash mine and the rock salt was produced as the miners pushed through the salt deposits to get to the fertiliser product. The facility now mines a different fertiliser ...

The megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago was so huge and fast that it shaped the landscape of ...

Rock salt in its pure form is the same sodium chloride that’s in your table salt. Except they’re extracted and processed very differently. Table salt is extracted by flooding salt deposits ...

If you've ever tossed a generous pinch of salt into your pasta pan's water for flavor or as an attempt to make it boil faster, you've likely ended up with a whitish ring of deposits inside the pan.

If you've ever tossed a generous pinch of salt into your pasta pan's water for flavor or as an attempt to make it boil faster, you've likely ended up with a whitish ring of deposits inside the pan.