Scraping off a surface is a fairly normal way to harvest small amounts of salt (usually known as salt licks, harvesting done by the herd beasts).
Residual humidity solves deeper layers of salt, capillary action transports the salt upwards, humidity evaporates. Or, in other words, the soil sweats out salt.
> From: CJ <cj_at_falster23.freeserve.co.uk>
>>Er, I was trying to think of Lunar salt sources? I can see the Wastes
>>as having huge expanses of surface salt however, and being an ideal
>>source.
> Would they? Are the Wastes salt?
Parts of the Wastes are dry enough so that salty crusts are formed. However: not all of these are healthy or helpful, since other minerals than rock salt can be sweated out that way. Given the hostile nature of the Wastes, I suppose many of those mineral crusts will be gypsum rather than salt, i.e. harmful.
>>the Heortling Coast will provide most of Sartars needs I would
>>have thought,
> I'm not sure it would though. I presume MirrorSea bay is Salt, so there
> could be salt traps along the coast. But it isn't easy to ship inland.
Mirrorsea Bay is brackish, with the Creek-Stream River pouring huge amounts of freshwater into it.
God Forgot might copy the mediaeval Frisian method of winning salt: dyke off a patsh of salty peat, air-dry it and burn it. The ashes will be mostly salt, suitable for preserving fish.
This method helps erode the coasts, takes away crabbing grounds etc., therefore I don't think the Rightarmers would do this.
> Celts traditonally mined salt
> straight out of mountain sides. (Using bronze tools so they wouldn't
> corrode like Iron would. There's GOT to be something useful to make
> of that mythically.)
The Danubian Celts had a very long way to the coast, and very convenient sources of mineable salt (Hallstatt, Bad Reichenhall). The Celts along the Rhone more likely imported their salt from the Mediterranean.
Hallstatt was an important mining and bronze-smithing centre already in the Bronze Age. Bronze implements were there for the recycling. When iron turned out not to be an improvement, why should they switch?
> Still, I am sure there are salt ponds near Nochet. Vienna became
> rich due to being a salt trader, so at
> least one major port city should have major access to salt.
Nochet is the main grain port for Esrolia (even though Rhigos is better situated at the mouth of the two major inland rivers), better comparable to Alexandria than e.g. Luebeck.
>>and anyway I can also sea salt as mythic dried tears of
>>the Godtime, so I guess you might find deposits all over the place.
Tears, sweat, ash, or poison, whichever you prefer. The Praxian Dead Place in all likelihood is full of the ash of the former Redwood which was burned in the Greater Darkness. Don't use it as a lick, or malformations and cancer can be the result (wood ash has significant amounts of dioxins...)
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