Salt crystal

Submitted to Monthly Scavenger Hunt - April 2009 ("salty") I made these crystals just for the hunt ;-)

This a macro made of some very large Maldon Sea Salt crystals. All Maldon Salt crystals have this wonderful pyramid shape, it is a natural process. Maldon Sea Salt is considered the finest Sea Salt available by top chefs all over the world.

Image 5 of 22 from gallery of Could Salt Be a Material of the Future? Innovating with Crystallized Salt Panels. © Adrian Deweerdt & Joana Luz

Photograph of Salt crystals coloured pink by carotine from organisms in the water in which the crystals grew. Namibia. Rights managed image. Warren Photographic WP06951

It's easy to grow magnesium sulfate or Epsom salt crystals. Follow this simple recipe and learn how to color and preserve the crystals.

Erez Nevi Pana constructs "small-scale architecture" from Dead Sea salt

Learn how rock salt, sea salt, fleur du sel, pink salt and British salt are made, then try our delicious salt and chilli squid recipe for dinner

Salt has been long revered as the foundation of civilization, being known as the most valuable commodity on earth, for both its inherit health benefits and its ability to preserve food. Salt played such an integral role in the development of the modern world, that most civilizations, beginning at the Bronze Age, created Salt Roads […]

One of the rarest salts in the world, Persian Blue is harvested from a single banding running through the white base stock of an ancient salt lake in Iran. Through enormous tectonic pressures and plate movements, the salt crystals have taken on the colour of the mineral, sylvin. Thanks for viewing and happy macro Monday.

Turda salt mine, Transylvania, Romania