It's the flamingo poop that makes it taste so good! LOL Big Cargill salt evaporation ponds in Bonaire but they are all road salt as far as I know. But we have used it more than once. The flamingos eat the brine shrimp in the condenser ponds and gain their pink pigmentation from the shrimp. Lot of salt came out of an underground mine in Hutchinson Kansas but if I recall it no longer mines salt. Used for underground long term storage now. The difference in conventional salt and salt like Redmond's is that the latter is not bleached so is in a more natural state (no anti-caking ingredients so you have to hit the side of the shaker in your hand before dispensing) and it has additional trace minerals in it. Redmond's comes out of a Utah mine if I recall correctly. John |