Salt

Some of the springs come up brine, because the water has crossed a buried evaporite bed on its way down. What it took to turn that water into salt: thorn galleries, iron pans, a pipeline of pine trunks and a works drawn as a half circle.

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Rust-colored brine flows through a narrow channel edged by crusted white salt deposits

Into the pan

Brine comes up on its own

Some springs here are salt, because the water has crossed a buried evaporite bed. The industry existed because the resource surfaced itself.

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Everything in Salt

3.1
Brine comes up on its own
Some springs here are salt, because the water has crossed a buried evaporite bed. The industry existed because the resource surfaced itself.
Into the pan
3.2
Boiling the pan
Shallow iron pans over fire, and the fuel that dominated the cost.
Into the pan
3.3
Graduation towers
Sheds packed with thorn bundles, trickling brine to concentrate it by evaporation before any fuel is burned.
Into the pan
3.4
The half-circle plan
A saltworks laid out as a geometric arc — production organised as architecture.
Into the pan
3.5
The brine pipeline
Moving the water to the fuel instead of the fuel to the water.
Into the pan

Wooden graduation tower packed with thorn bundles beside a wet pathway — Brine trickles down thorn bundles so the wind removes water before any wood is burned.

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Salt

Brine comes up on its own

Brine comes up on its own

Boiling the pan

Graduation towers

The half-circle plan

The brine pipeline