I quickly run to my computer and fearing the worst I type in 'marble and salt', and of course there it is: "salt on marble is really not a very good idea, especially anywhere near water...".
Exploited deposits include salt (at Taoudenni), marble and kaolin (at Bafoulabé), and limestone (at Diamou).
There also are deposits of salt, sulfur, alum, marble, limestone, and clay.
Sift the flour and salt onto a marble pastry slab or workbench.
Suddenly, as I am admiring my floors I find myself struck with a horrific thought, what does salt do to marble?
It is rich in mineral resources (especially marble and salt), and gypsum, silver ore, and feldspar are mined; there is a sulfur plant at Sambhar Salt Lake.
Next door to Mr. George's town, in Clarksburg, the police routinely shoo away or arrest entrepreneurs and collectors who try to sneak onto a torn-up former factory floor of the Akro Agate Company, looking in old drainpipes and digging around the grounds for corkscrews and Popeyes and sparklers and fluorescents (from uranium salts) and other rare marble varieties.
Instead of precious marble, we were offered salt licks, large white blocks of salt that are given to livestock to lick.
These findings can be compared with recent data from further inland in the Namib desert which suggest very slow rates of breakdown of similar blocks of Damara granite and Karibib marble, even where salts are readily available.
Ten minutes later my marble floors are sparkling with all types of salt: pink salt, table salt, extra-large rock sea salt, cheap iodized salt, bath salts.
