Siwan handicrafts are renowned and the shops display hand-woven rugs and trinkets fashioned from rock salt.
After driving from Iowa, the first 10 feet of the bus were covered an inch deep in rock salt.
Add bit of rock salt and slush from the road, he says, and it turns into a bad margarita.
One of the UK's biggest suppliers of rock salt, Cleveland Potash, said it was struggling to meet the demand for supplies.
Decisions about which councils are given salt ahead of others are usually made by heads of the UK's rock salt mines.
Cardiff council said it was only salting a dozen "priority routes" from Thursday evening in a bid to conserve rock salt supplies.
There is no need to panic, however: the creatures in question are harmless bacteria that were found preserved in a crystal of rock salt.
Cheshire's Winsford salt mine, the biggest supplier of rock salt in England, has said it only has a few days' supply of surface salt left.
Restrictions on lorry movements to and from the Winsford mine in Cheshire, the UK's biggest rock salt mine, have been eased to help meet a huge demand for salt.
In early 2011, Threeprom opened barfry, a high-end French fries bar that serves paprika and rock salt fries in paper cones, along with an impressive selection of homemade sauces and additional toppings such as pickles, fried onions, jalapenos and pork rinds.
Not only are there strict rules against any harsh treatment of the animals, but also elephants may not play more than two 20-minute games a day and each animal is rewarded with sugar cane or rice balls full of molasses and rock salt after each match.
It is integrated into their everyday activities over the course of seven months during which the clans alternate responsibilities: one group embarks on fishing expeditions throughout the area while another prepares offerings of rock salt, fish and ritual food for the spirits, and performs music and dance.
The market cap of Petrobras has shed billions since she took over from what many Petrobras watchers say is nothing more than a policy instrument for Brasilia to funnel money to pet projects, rather than an actual oil company drilling below sand and rock salt in the Atlantic Ocean.
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To do so they're pushing the frontiers of imaging technology to peer beneath miles of water, rock and salt layers thousands of feet thick--all in the hopes of finding billions of barrels of oil trapped below.
In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China.
But there is plenty for the less physically ambitious to do as well, including taking a walk through the Valley of the Moon near sunset (the salt rock formations can be heard popping and crackling with temperature swings), visiting flamingo-dotted salt lakes, swimming near the El Tatio geysers, or stargazing at Explora's own observatory.
Bissell hired Edwin Drake to drill for rock oil, not salt, and in 1859 Drake found what Bissell was looking for.
The underground storage areas are created by removing salt in the rock strata with equipment similar to high pressure water jets.
Good ribs are all over the place, but the best brisket is in Texas, and to me that means The Salt Lick, a rock-your-world temple of fire, smoke and meat outside Austin.
"When I started, geologists were considered heretics for dreaming that there could be salt canopies with reservoir-quality rock beneath them, " says Issen, 54.
Bissell found out that some rock oil was a by-product obtained by drilling for salt.
Since then, each item had engraved itself in my memory, frozen in time: a bag of dried chickpeas, a cannister of salt, a withered Fuji apple, and the rock-hard stump of a baguette.
Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.
Rather, as a consequence of injecting water and sand into the shale formation to crack the rocks so gas and oil will flow, massive amounts of waste water comes back to the surface with significant amounts of contaminants as a result of leaching out salt, heavy metals and trace amounts of radioactive materials from the rock formation itself.
Imaging through rock is one thing, but seismic data get scrambled when it bounces off layers of salt deep under the seabed.
Dr Hazen and his team speculate from meteorite and early rock studies that several hundred mineral species, including zircon, quartz, clay and halite salt crystals, formed during this early period of mineral evolution.
This super-easy recipe has only two ingredients, beef and salt, yet it is so amazing that if you like steak, it is going to rock your world.
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Rock Grip Wading Boots Aluminum Bar: I fish most of the year on superslick jetties in the salt.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, he dropped out of high school in the late 1970s to play in a rock band.
In the spring, tourists come from all over the world to see the natural wonders: crystalline salt popping out of the ground, sand dunes surrounded by mountains, vibrantly colored, unearthly-looking rock formations and, if there's been enough rain, blooming wildflowers.
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