Posted: 3/31/2007 4:05:43 PM EDT
| Lets talk salt, where do you get it, mine, extract, ect....The indians lived on the plains of SD, ND, NE, WY, MT for hundereds of years before whites so where did they get thier salt from. Or how did they extract it from natural sources. And I am not planning on driving to KS to get salt my diging my own mine looking for something more local to SD |
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Some folks took care to recycle their salt. Just wipe it off your skin and put it back in your mouth or on your food for seasoning. No shortage of salt in Utah. ETA: This might give you some ideas of where to look saline wetlands |
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Table salt is usually mined from underground deposits. KS and MI are two places that have salt mines off the top of my head. www.saltinstitute.org/images/map.pdf |
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it's been a while sence I studied it, but there are some tribes in the Amazon that burned a certain tree (can't remember which one) and used the ash to flavor food. Not only did it have high amounts of salt but also a little iodine, crazy. While, that was about the most unhelpful post I think I've ever wrote. -JTP |
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Years ago just down from my house was a salt plant (old school salt plant) , all the water underground is salt water (I don't know why) farmers can't grow rice here unless they have a reservoir for holding water and pump it back out to the field to grow rice. Salt water from underground will kill the soil so nothing will grow ! Anyway back to the old school salt plant , all the old timers did was to pump the salt water from underground into open air vats and let the water evaporate and the end product was table salt ! I have thought about doing this for myself to see how good it would work , also thought it might be a good SHTF trading material ! |
now that helps answer my question, atleast a little bit more directly |