where does salt come from and why don't we ever run out?

Answer 1

http://www.realsalt.com/the_salt_of_the_earth.cfm

here are some salt facts

Answer 2

It is mined in salt mines and on salt flats (places where there used to be sea water). Morton also has special estuaries near the California desert that allow salt water from the Pacific to come in, then they dam it up, let the water evaporate and scrape up all the sea salt. The ocean's and Polar Caps have so much salt water/ice that we'll run out of fresh water WAY before exhausting all of the salt - but don't panic, that's many generations down the line.

Answer 3

Salt is the refined form of the mineral Halite. Halite occurs in vast lakes of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result from the drying up of enclosed beds, playas, and seas. Also, salt domes which 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 overlying rock. The reason we never run out is because, first there is already so much salt in salt domes that we could never use it all, and second because we can generate salt by evaporating sea water and mining the halite that forms.
Salt domes can measure anywhere from 1 to 10 kilometers across and extend as far down as 6.5 kilometers.That's as much as 650 cubic Km , or 22954533 cubic feet of salt.

Answer 4

Consider the following tale: In order to solve the growing shortage of fresh water, the President offered to de-salinate the ocean, and to store the salt in a pile in the United States. How big is the pile? Answer: it would cover the entire United States, ten miles deep.

Answer 5

There's a heck of a lot of it in the sea. ;-)

Commercially it comes from places where there used to be salty water (inland seas etc.) that have since dried up, leaving the salt behind. Water desalination plants would also produce large amounts of salt, though I don't know how many go to the bother of purifying it and selling it. I assume if it is economically worthwhile they will.

Answer 6

Salt "comes" from one atom of chlorine combining with one atom of sodium to make one molecule of salt, NaCl. Why don't we run out?
"The combined oceans contain about four and one-half million cubic miles of salt—enough to cover the entire depth of the United States to a depth of one mile."
And each one of us hold about 8 grams of salt in our mostly-made-of-water body.

Answer 7

Salt is composed of both sodium and chloride, otherwise known as NaCl. I'm not sure about why we never seem to run out.

Answer 8

We gather seawater and put in into man made dams.. we let it sit for months or yours then once most or all the water has evaporated we scrape salt of the bottom of the dam, then it goes into piles and its cured and packed ,,
thats what i was told,, i live near a saltdam.

Answer 9

don't know too much but i am dead sure that it "comes" from sea.the water of sea is saline.part of water is taken out (somewhere) and is left to evaporate.water evaporates leaving the salt behind.the sea has plenty of water and is quite saline so we don't ever run out of it .
anyways,looks you want us to run out of salt.

Answer 10

It comes from salt mines.......the Earth......theres a lot........like gold,diamonds,silver,...dirt, rocks, water,....we have all of these things to and we dont run out....its part of the earth.....theres a lot of salt