Ethiopia’s Danakil rock salt: hundreds of metres of young evaporites in the Afar Rift, Assale salt extraction, Dallol brines and a 625-metre core dominated by halite.
Ain Tekki–Mohammedia underground rock-salt mine in Morocco: solid halite extraction, high-purity industrial salt, large operator-reported reserves and Atlantic export access.
Morocco’s geological rock salt around Mohammedia and Ain Tekki: underground halite mining, operator-reported reserve scale, high-purity industrial salt and export logistics.
UAE rock-salt geology: Infra-Cambrian Hormuz Salt diapirs exposed on offshore islands and at Jebel Al Dhanna, with massive halite, inclusions and potential subsurface-storage relevance.
Saudi Arabia’s geological halite in Arab and Hith evaporites, deep Arabian salt systems, evaporite karst east of Riyadh and the distinction between subsurface rock salt and modern sabkha salt.
Mount Sedom in the Dead Sea Basin: a surface-piercing rock-salt diapir, thick Sedom Formation evaporites, salt caves, dissolution surfaces and continuing uplift.
Oman’s roughly 540-million-year-old Ara Group rock salt, South Oman and Ghaba salt basins, surface-piercing diapirs, carbonate stringers and halokinetic evaporite geology.
Iran’s Hormuz rock salt: Late Neoproterozoic–Early Cambrian evaporites, Zagros salt domes, diapirs, salt glaciers and very thick halite systems in Fars and Laristan.
Uzbekistan’s Khodjaikon natural rock-salt monolith, Tyubegatanskoe and Kyzylmazar Jurassic halite, and the Kugitang–Amu Darya evaporite belt of Central Asia.
Kyrgyzstan’s researched rock-salt deposits in the Tien Shan: Ketmen-Tube, Chon-Tuz, Chon-Alai and Tunuk-Tuz, reported resource sizes and modern rock-salt production.
