I have always thought about this. How did our ancestors find salt and metal? Did someone just choose a spot to dig and go at it?
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In addition to surface deposits, there are vast natural cave systems which, when explored even with primitive lighting, would have shown different veins and strata in the rock face. And, humans being humans, someone dared someone else to lick it and you end up with a salt mine.
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