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"Dee Dee" > wrote:

> A store about 50 miles south of us where I buy it in the big packages is the
> cheapest, has a display of a piece of salt that came out of the mines.
> Estimating, it is about 12" long x 6' high by 6 thick. A nice chunk,
> beautiful!
> Everytime I mention it to the Mennonite gals that work there that it is so
> nice they have a display -- it actually is hidden 'behind' the salt for
> sale -- they are surprised that it is there. Harrisonburg, VA.
> Dee Dee

It is pretty stuff. :-)

We visited some of the Halite (salt) mine gift shops in Utah several
years ago and they had some lovely carvings made from it for sale.

It's also possible to purchase actual giant cube shaped salt crystals in
some places.

There is a gift shop in Austin that has "Halite" crystals from time to
time after the owners hit annual gem and mineral shows. After one
incident where someone placed one in a fish tank, they now post a sign
with the crystals warning against that. <G>

Not all their crystal customers realized that Halite is salt...
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