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Himalayan salt (coarse) Himalayan salt from Khewra Salt Mine near Khewra, Punjab, Pakistan Himalayan salt is rock salt mined from the Punjab region of Pakistan. The salt, which often has a pinkish tint due to trace minerals, is primarily used as a food additive to replace refined table salt but is also used for cooking and food presentation, decorative lamps, and spa treatments.
Salt from Khewra mine is also used to make decorative items like lamps, vases, ashtrays and statues, [37] which are exported to the United States, India and many European countries. [35] [38] The use of rock salt to make artistic and decorative items started during the Mughal era, when many craftsman made tableware and decorations from it. [39]
Kala namak or black salt is a kiln-fired rock salt with a sulphurous, pungent smell used in the Indian subcontinent.It is also known as "Himalayan black salt", Sulemani namak, bit noon, bire noon, bit loona, bit lobon, kala loon, sanchal, kala meeth, guma loon, or pada loon, and is manufactured from the salts mined in the regions surrounding the Himalayas.
Salt domes are vertical diapirs or pipe-like masses of salt that have been essentially "squeezed up" from underlying salt beds by mobilization due to the weight of the overlying rock. Salt domes contain anhydrite , gypsum , and native sulfur , in addition to halite and sylvite .
I think we need a source to verify that only salt marketed as Himalayan that is used for salt lamps. Same for the color. --Ronz 15:56, 25 August 2009 (UTC) I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding the statement, but any Himalayan Salt Lamp would be from the Himalayan Salt... I haven't really seen any other type of salt lamps before.
Himalayan salt is rock salt mined from the Salt Range mountains in the Pakistani region of Punjab. The salt is principally sodium chloride but has trace presence of calcium , iron , zinc , chromium , magnesium , and sulfate , minerals which give some veins of the salt a pink or reddish color.