How to describe salt as a mineral

Fa­mil­iar kitchen salt, or as it is also called, halite, is a vi­tal min­er­al, the only one ex­ist­ing in na­ture which peo­ple use in food. It took hun­dreds of years to be­come a per­ma­nent at­tribute in ev­ery kitchen.

This in­ter­est­ing min­er­al is a sed­i­ment rock and lies in nat­u­ral brines, grad­u­al­ly crys­tal­liz­ing. Its fields have not yet been stud­ied. It is also found in the craters of vol­ca­noes. Fields of salt rocks are en­coun­tered in dif­fer­ent re­gions of the coun­try. Nat­u­ral halite in its nat­u­ral state has Lick Salt around 8% im­pu­ri­ties and varies in col­or from white to yel­low, blue and even red. Many min­er­als have a thick coat­ing of plas­ter on top.

For many cen­turies, mirac­u­lous qual­i­ties were as­cribed to salt. At first glance, the sim­ple min­er­al serves as a re­li­able source for ban­ish­ing neg­a­tive things from your life and your home, and over­com­ing ill­ness­es. Many omens are at­trib­uted to salt to this day: if you spill it, there’ll be an ar­gu­ment, if you pour it on the ground in the form of a cross, it will serve as a pro­tec­tion against evil spir­its, and will also show the evil eye. These tal­is­mans had to be made on cer­tain days, which you can read about in old books of rit­u­al.