The large mines where most of the grocery store Himalayan Salt comes from are in Pakistan. Explosives are used to open the area to be mined. Laborers bore 5-foot-deep holes into the rock face with hand-cranked drills, stuff them with gunpowder, set fuses and run for cover. Once the dust settles, trucks go into the mines to collect the salt.
Metal grinders are used to break down the salt, and shards of metal can end up mixed in the salt.
The working conditions in these huge mines are dangerous. According to Azmad Malik, a former deputy chief of the salt-workers union, scarcely a week passes without a report of a fatal accident. The miners live in medieval conditions.
Alternatively, Original Himalayan Crystal Salt® is found in a remote location high in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, where it is carefully mined by hand.
From here it is transported by donkey along a dirt mountain road to our facility where it is cleaned, hand-sorted, and stone-ground according to traditional methods, and hand-packed locally. This preserves the salt’s natural vibration and inherent energy, and is the only way to ensure that all 84 minerals remain in perfect crystalline form essential for optimal bio-availability.
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