Metal snips (November 13, 1989)

The U.S. was the largest producer-nation of salt in 1988 with an approximate 19% share of the market, the U.S. Bureau of Mines reports. Among the popular uses for salt, produced in a variety of forms by about 200 countries, are in chemical manufacture, water softening and highway de-icing. Salt is one of the world’s most heavily traded chemical industry ores, last year accounting for about 66% of that trade.

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