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Salt Statistics and Information

By National Minerals Information Center

Salt Insights and Data

Pictured: halite

Statistics and information on the worldwide supply of, demand for, and flow of the mineral commodity salt
 

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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