How is sea salt extracted from the sea?
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It comes from evaporation process. I live in Utah where they get ALOT of salt from the old evaporated Lake Bonneville, as well as some of the current Salt Lake. Here's a site if you want to read up on it: http://geology.utah.gov/online/pi-39/pi3...
We also went to Austria a couple of years ago and traveled through a Salt Mine. They flood the caves with water then pump it out so that it can evaporate, then collect the salt that is left over. It's all very interesting!
I always thought they put the water out to evaporate under the sun and the sea salt is left over.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that's how it's done in most countries.
Most commercial producers use simple evaporation by sunlight to produce sea salt. "Normal" salt comes from mines - usually underground from "salt domes". There is one that has been producing salt commercially in Grand Saline, Texas that I visited when I was in the Boy Scouts years ago.
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