Stone Age Britons extracted salt from seawater using industrial-style processes more than 5500 years ago. The discovery means people in Great Britain were producing salt thousands of years earlier ...

Salt farmer Nyoman Warta hauls seawater onto the dark beach of Kusamba. He is one of the last representatives of this profession on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali. Here, the "white gold" is ...

Kosher salt is a type of pure salt with a coarse, flat grain that is mined from deposits in the ground and named for the fact that it is used for koshering meat—drawing the blood out of the meat by ...