Salt Resources
Rock Salt
Introduction
Salt Production
Pakistan is an excellent country for salt production due to the many salt ranges. The ranges stretch from Kalabagh to Jhelum in the province of Punjab. Other than that, the geological surveys of the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) have stated that there is about 2.65 billion tons of salt present in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa alone. Furthermore, the reserves at Bahadurkhel in Kohat are estimated to be 10.54 billion tons.
Salt Range Production
These salt ranges are quite underutilized and the production of this salt is not sufficient, keeping in mind the importance of the deposits of this important mineral. Currently, the production estimate for rock salt from all the salt mines comes around to be about a little over 2,000,000 tons per annum.