Unbeknownst to many, Pakistan is home to the world's second largest salt reserves, found in district Jhelum of the Punjab province. The Khewra Salt Mines, as they are called, are located about 160 ...

Salt is one of the basic ingredients that is widely used in preparing different types of food. You may also like to sprinkle ...

When a friend of mine came up with the idea of visiting the Khewra salt mines, I was game because I had always been fascinated by the famous Salt Range. The early morning breeze was laden with ...

The salt is mined from rolling red-brick hills that rise from marshes in Khewra, about two hours from the capital, Islamabad. They are hundreds of miles from the iconic snowy peaks of the ...

The reserve is the second largest deposit of salt in the world and the largest in Asia. According to some estimates, the Khewra Mines have more than 6.5 billion tons of salt which, at the current ...

Pink Himalayan salt is a pink-colored salt extracted from the Khewra Salt Mine, which is located near the Himalayas in Pakistan. The Khewra Salt Mine is one of the oldest and largest salt mines in ...

True Himalayan salt lamps come from the Khewra Salt Mine in Pakistan. The salt this mine produces has a pink, reddish-pink, or off-white color. There are plenty of fake ones sold online.

pink salt—commonly called Himalayan salt—is actually extracted from deep within Pakistan’s Khewra mountain range, roughly 200 miles from the Himalayas. Accounting for roughly 800 million ...

However, the place which best illustrates the interplay between culture and nature, man and the geology of the Salt Range, is Khewra, one of the world’s richest salt deposits, where salt has been ...

Narrator: We went inside the mine turning this mountain into 400,000 tons of pink salt each year. The Khewra Salt Mine, here in the Punjab region of Pakistan, is the second largest salt mine in ...