Largest Salt Bed In The World

They turn out 325 000 tons of salt a year.

Largest salt bed in the world.

The largest concentration of dry lakes nearly 22 000 is in the southern high plains of texas and eastern new mexico. Today the khewra salt mines are the second largest in the world. The salt flats cover nearly 518 sq km 200 sq miles among the largest protected salt flats in the world. Citation needed most dry lakes are small.

The badwater basin salt flats located in the heart of california s death valley national park is is the lowest point in north america with an elevation of 86 meters 282 ft below sea level. Salar de uyuni or salar de tunupa is the world s largest salt flat or playa at over 10 000 square kilometres 3 900 sq mi in area. One of the world s largest and most valuable pearls was left forgotten under a bed for more than 10 years its owner told cnn. In the world s biggest salt desert measuring 12 000 sq km 4 635 sq miles the ground at certain times of the year resembles a giant mirror.

Amazingly this isn t even a dent into the salt that s stored here which is estimated to be about 6 687 billion tons. The output over its lifetime is estimated to be 220 million tons. The salar was formed as a result of transformations between several prehistoric lakes.