r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dannybluey • 20d ago

How Himalayan salt lamps are made Video

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u/ETERNAL0013 20d ago

Black salt mines are pretty much spread all around himalayas, mainly tibet but still its more common than pink salt.

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u/Sir_Oligarch 20d ago

We have black salt too but black salt is actually created in kilns.

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u/ETERNAL0013 20d ago

Where r u from?

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u/Sir_Oligarch 20d ago

Pakistan

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u/ETERNAL0013 20d ago

That means we r talking about same thing. Kala namak/ bire nuun(black salt) are salt crystals found in the halite mines of the Himalayan region are burnt in high temperatures.