Salt is essential to life. We cannot live without it. While the need for salt has shaped the history of humanity, its responsible and innovative use will be key to shaping a more sustainable, resilient, and competitive future.
Over time, the technology for producing salt and the range of its uses have developed dramatically. This calls for an expanded focus on the science and technology of salt. In order to capture new developments more coherently, salt industry leaders and scientists have decided to come together every decade to exchange and shape the future by organising the international World Salt Symposia.
The World Salt Symposia represent the international gathering of scientists and industry leaders from all regions of the globe. These meetings have comprised presentations and papers that cover every issue of the salt sector. The papers address the topics of geology, mineralogy, geochemistry and tectonics of salt.
The mining papers cover dry mining, geophysics, rock mechanics, solution mining, cavity construction and underground storage.
Solar salt production papers embrace the subjects of solar evaporation, thermo-evaporation, seawater desalination and by-products of solar operations.
The important areas of nutrition, water conditioning, winter maintenance and the environment are also included.
The meetings and the papers represent the latest thinking and concepts regarding the occurrence, origin, properties, technology and uses of salt and related materials.
