Mineral lick
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A mineral lick is a place where animals can go to lick essential mineral nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals. Mineral licks can be naturally occurring or artificial. Natural licks are
Gaur at a natural salt lick
Svärdsjö sheep, an endangered Swedish local breed, licking salt
Block of salt mounted on a post in Sopot, Poland
Giraffe and wildebeest at an artificial salt lick in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, South Africa
Saltern
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A saltern is an area or installation for making salt. Salterns include modern salt-making works, as well as hypersaline waters that usually contain high concentrations of halophilic microorganisms, pr
Mineral lick
…the grandfather of Odin. On the first day as Auðumbla licked, Buri's hair appeared from the ice; on the second day his head; and the third his body. Saltern Zoopharmacognosy…
The South Bay Salt Works, a Californian saltern, with salt ponds.