Friday, April 12, 2013

Friday fun: beautiful...salt mines

From The Atlantic's In Focus blog:
Salt, an essential element for all animal life, is abundant here on Earth, but it still requires extraction from stone deposits or salty waters. The process of mining that salt can produce beautiful landscapes, including deep, stable caverns, multicolored pools of water, and geometric carvings.
Columbia

Indonesia

Peru


Germany

Columbia

Chile