evidence: Himalayan pink salt is recognized for its distinctive color, flavor, and mineral content. I personally love Himalayan salt for many culinary and curative uses. In particular, I love that it can be ground down to virtually any size crystal grain, from a fine powder that’s great on popcorn to medium grains that can be measured easily for recipes to coarse grains that are great for a salt grinder. Himalayan salt is extracted from salt deposits in Salt Range of Pakistan. The salt deposits formed between 600 million and 800 million years ago. They are the most extensive salt deposits in the world, and possibly the oldest. The area where the Salt Range is now located was once covered by a shallow salty sea. High temperatures and low rainfall led to the gradual evaporation of the sea, leaving behind layers of salt and other sediment that were in turn were covered by layers of other sedimentary rocks like limestone and sandstone before tectonic activity thrust the plate deep under the earth. Salt acts a lot like a liquid under high pressure, so as it was compressed by the rock above, it formed big blobs that go hundreds or even thousands of feet thick called salt domes. [...] Our Himalayan Salt is mined by hand without the use of explosives!