Salt Statistics and Information

Salt, also known as sodium chloride, has many end uses.  Virtually every person in the world has some direct or indirect contact with salt daily.  People routinely add salt to their food as a flavor enhancer or apply rock salt to walkways to remove ice in the winter. Salt is used as feedstock for chlorine and caustic soda manufacture; these two inorganic chemicals are used to make many consumer-related end-use products, such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic made from chlorine and paper-pulping chemicals manufactured from caustic soda.

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Annual Publications

Mineral Commodity Summaries

• Salt
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• Appendixes

Minerals Yearbook

• Salt
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       | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
    XLS Format:
       | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 tables-only release |
• Archive
       | 1932-1993 |

Special Publications

• Estimates of Road Salt Application across the Conterminous United States, 1992-2015
• Historical Global Statistics (Data Series 896)
• Historical Statistics for Mineral and Material Commodities in the United States 
  Data Series 140
  • Salt
• The Material Flow of Salt
  U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 9343
• Statistical Compendium
  • Salt (1970-1990)