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Watch the short video of us driving through the cave.

I am standing 450ft. straight vertical to the surface of the cave. I am on the 3rd level and when I look up, there is another level directly above my head.  There are 4 levels and each level is divided by 80 ft. of salt. In terms of east and west, the cave is 1,500 ft. wide. In terms of north and south, it is 2 miles long and 5 thousand ft. thick. The deepest point is at 650 ft. The tunnel is 14 miles long.

Workers are carrying loads back and forth that weigh 60 to 70 tons above me and I can barely hear them.

I am surrounded by a ton of 100% sea salt straight from the earth. 14 miles to be exact.

The cave is in pristine condition. It runs smoothly 20 hours a day and night. Workers are loading 60 trucks a day filled with 70 tons of material.  They do about 3,000 tons a day,  roughly 12,000 tons a week, and just about 600,000 tons a year.

It smells fresh and looks really clean. Despite what some people think about mining, in this particular case, the mine wasn’t dirty and didn’t look dangerous at all.  It was very well managed and operated. The people working for the company are passionate about what they do and it shows.

My tour guide, Kyle Bosshardt, has been working there for over 30 years.

“How did you guys first find all of this salt,” I asked.

Early pioneers found it because “salt was exposed to the surface on different parts of the land and the animals were flocking to it.”

Bosshardt, being from the original family of this salt mine, told us a cool story about the native people.

“There’s some ancient dwellings down there.  The experts estimated that when they were discovered that the native people had been adbandoned from those dwellings 1600 years prior to their discovery. Salt from this deposit was founded in those dwellings so because of that we know the native people were using this salt source 1600 plus years ago.”

“How?” I asked.

“The blueprint matched here. Freemont Indiands are native to this area, they were mining the salt and trading to the Anasazi’s for some commodity. “

The Redmond salt deposit begins about 30 feet below the surface and it is covered by a layer of bentonite clay. The clay protects it from erosion and from the possibility of contamination. Bentonite Clay is volcanic ash that has fallen into a body of seawater. It is packed with trace minerals and health benefits. When the clay comes in contact with a chemical, heavy metal, or toxin, the clay will absorb the bad stuff and release its minerals for the body to use. Bentonite also helps get oxygen to cells as it pulls excess hydrogen and allows the cells to replace it with oxygen instead.

Bentonite clay uses magnetic energy to purify whatever it comes in contact with.

There are over 65 different sea minerals in Redmond salt.

A short list of sea Salt health benefits include:

muscle recovery

breath control

heart health

electrolyte balance

skin inprovement

inflammation

detox

According to NaturalFoodSeries.com, “Salt is a unique compound that possesses anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and mucolytic properties, which helps promote the health of our respiratory system significantly.”

“What is the difference between iodized salt and Redmond salt?” I asked.

Bosshardt said,

“For health benefits, these different colors that you see in the salt, are 65 different sea minerals that fell out and deposited when this salt mineral formed.  These minerals are minerals that are good for you, they are minerals that your body needs, uses, and processes. Lots of times, negative health affects that come from salt, like people will tell you that you retain water, it causes high blood pressure, things like that, and lot of the reasons for that is because those salts are no longer salts. The body doesn’t recognize it, you can consume it, but the body doesn’t know how to process it because it has been changed so much. Things are added things are taken away so it thinks it is a foreign object and your body doesn’t know how to deal with it and that’s what causes the adverse side effects.”

So basically, if you’re exposed to a bunch of bad salt, you are receptive to the adverse health affects and that is where a lot of people get mistaken about what “kind” of salt they are actually putting in their body. A lot of times, when it is a salt issue people are having, the salt those people are loading up on, isn’t really salt but other things that have been added to it.

If you expose yourself to the good salt, you are actually exposing yourself to all of the good trace minerals that comes from salt. If, not, then you could be exposing yourself to other kinds of salts that your body doesn’t know how to break down.

So…choose your salt wisely maybe?? I have actually never thought about salt like this before so this was all extremely interesting to me.

At Redmond Minerals, their salt is 100% pure and all natural, straight from the mine.

“This is 100% natural sea salt.  We don’t add anything to it, we don’t take anything away from it.”

“Is Redmond salt like Himalayan salt?”

Kyle said,

“The big difference between Himalayan and ours is sulfur. They both have sulfur as one of those 65 different sea minerals but ours is almost not even registered, I mean we are talking about one hundreds of a thousand percent, whereas Himalayan salt is quite high in sulfur.”

Kyle said that if you put their salt out and Himalayan salt out in front of an animal, more than likely, the animal will go to Redmond salt first because the animals can smell the sulfur.

Redmond Minerals salt is America’s only unrefined ancient sea salt and they believe it is unlike any other salt on earth.

Trophy Rock

Deicing salt

Redmond Minerals has a bunch of their own homemade products for sale including:

Real Salt

Earthpaste

Earthpowder

Redmond Clay

Bath Salt

Earthcure

Thanks for the tour Kyle!

I have personally already tried the salt and the clay that I got from the store and I love it. It is the best salt I have ever tasted.

Have you ever visited a salt cave? If so, share where in the comments below!

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