Jatta Bhadurkhel and Karak

These salt mines are located in the trans- Indus extension of the Salt Range. Among these mines Bhadurkhel (district Kohat) salt deposits are very: large, with thickness of 100 meters, and production from these mines is more than 50 thousand tonnes annually. The thickness of Jatta and Karak mines is 30 meters, while reserves of these mines, however, are thought to be very large. Annual production of rock salt of Pakistan in 1990-91 was 736 thousand tonnes, which reaches 1,394 thousatid tonnes during 2000-01. During 2007-08, production of rock salt was 1,849 thousand tonnes.

Besides, salt is also obtained from brine and salt lakes, but the amount obtained from these sources is relatively small. Salt is also harvested in the Tharparkar area of Sindh where a’l-metre layer of salt covers an extensive area and it is also obtained by evaporating sea water along the Makran and Lasbela coasts.

Large deposits of concentrated brine have been discovered at. Haryana near Khewra.