<P> Himalayan salt is rock salt or halite from the Punjab region of Pakistan, near the Himalayas, but falsely marketed as being from the Himalayas . Numerous health claims have been made concerning himalayan salt, but there's no scientific evidence that prove these claims . </P> <P> Although its salt is sometimes marketed as "Jurassic Sea Salt", this salt deposit comes from a sea present during the Permian era around 250 million years ago and the Cretaceous era around 105 million years ago . This sea became landlocked and evaporated, leaving a dense salt deposit, colored by a common pink microorganism that had lived in it . Over the next few hundred million years, that deposit ended up at the border of a continental plate, and was pushed up into a mountain range in Pakistan . </P>

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