A global market analysis of Rocksalt production

Introduction

Halite, a mineral type of sodium chloride, is used to make rock salt (NaCl). It is usually colourless or yellow, but depending on the quantity and form of impurities, it may also be light blue, medium blue, or pink. Rock salt is found in large beds of sedimentary ‘evaporate’ rocks and is derived from salt mountains. Water-soluble mineral sediment is the product of crystalline material drying up in aqueous solutions such as wetlands, seawater, and so on.

Salt beds can reach hundreds of metres in depth and occupy large areas of soil. After that, commercially extracted rock salt is processed for human use. Apart from its cooking and medicinal applications, rock salt is sprayed on roads in cold winters to lower the freezing point of water and avoid ice forming.Data Analysis report provides world markets strategies on rock salts. The Rock Salt Market consumption for major regions is given. This report is partitioned based on driving Rock Salt Market Top Key players, application and regions.

Domestic Manufacturing and Consumption:

Salt demand United States is expected to drop by 7% to 39 million tons in 2020 detected by data analytics companies. It was calculated that the overall amount of salt sold or used was around $2.4 billion. There are 26 businesses operating 63 plants across 16 states. Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, and Utah were the highest producing states, in alphabetical order. In 2020, these seven states will contain almost all of the salt in the United States.

Rock salt data analysis shows about 43 percent of all salt sold or used, followed by salt in brine (40 percent), vacuum pan salt (10 percent), and solar salt (7%).Highway deicing absorbed approximately 43% of overall salt consumption. Around 38% of total salt sales went to the chemical industry, with salt in brine accounting for 90% of the salt used as a chemical feedstock.

The chemical industry’s biggest customers were chlorine and caustic soda producers. Distributors accounted for 9% of salt sales, followed by food production at 4%, agriculture at 2%, and general industrial and primary water treatment at 1% each. Other uses associated with exports accounted for the remaining 2%.

^eEstimated, ¹Excludes production from Puerto Rico, ²Defined has sold or used by producers + imports – exports, ³Defined as imports – exports.

In 2021, demand for salt brine used in the chloralkali industry is expected to increase as global caustic soda rises, especially in Asia. Exports from Australia and India increased to satisfy China’s demand for caustic soda, but trade relations between China and both countries may affect.

World Production

^eEstimated, ¹Excludes production from Puerto Rico

Global Resources

The salt deposits of the world’s continents are enormous, and the salt content of the oceans is almost limitless. Rock salt and brine salt resources are mostly found in Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Texas. Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah all have saline lakes and solar evaporation salt facilities. Salt deposits or solar evaporation operations of various sizes can be found in almost every country on the planet.

Rock Salt in India

Hindustan Salts Limited (HSL) has its rock salt mines in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, with a proven rock salt deposit of 116 million metric tonnes. The current data mining method is dry mining, which produces around 400-500 tonnes of salt each month and is distributed in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, and Haryana. Since demand exceeds supply, we are developing several new mines using Solution Mining Technology [2].

The specifications of the Company’s rock salt are given in the below chart.

Reference:

[1] U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, January 2021

(https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2021/mcs2021-salt.pdf).

[2]https://www.indiansalt.com/rock.htm