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Wash House

At the wash house, the salt is dumped into a saturated brine solution to wash off any impurities that might be stuck to the crystals. Because saturated brine is already carrying as much salt as it can hold, very little salt dissolves in the wash.
The harvested salt is slurried in the brine through a series of washers and augers. The cleaned salt is then dropped onto a massive conveyor that carries it on a 1/6-mile journey to a height of more than 90 feet, from which it is dropped on our pure white
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Trucks dump 30 tons of salt into the brine wash.
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