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Aerial footage of Cargill Solar Salt Plant - Freedom, Oklahoma, USA

Aerial footage of the Cargill Solar Salt Plant in Freedom, Oklahoma. Just after the panhandle connects to the pan of Oklahoma, near the town of Freedom, is Cargill Salt’s solar production plant. It is one of only a few places in the country where salt is produced in large quantities by solar evaporation – most salt that is consumed is mined from large deposits underground. Solar evaporation requires a large amount of surface area and water to make shallow ponds, a dry and sunny atmosphere, as well as a source of salt to extract. Cargill, the largest salt company in the country, only operates in this manner at two other locations in the country: in San Francisco Bay, and at the Great Salt Lake in Utah, where the source of salt is the naturally salty water. Here, in high and dry western Oklahoma, the salt in the groundwater along the Cimarron River is high enough to be used to make salt by evaporation. Solar Salt Production is the process in which naturally occurring salt water (from a sea, lake, etc.), is channeled into a series of shallow, interlocking ponds. Over time, the water moves through the sequence of ponds that allow evaporation of water to create brine solutions until the most saturated brines evaporate to form salt crystals. This production method produces high-quality, high-purity salt, ranging between 99.6% and 100% purity.