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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear AD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The salt in question is from a solar evaporation pan. There is a bottom layer that is not clean enough to use so it is refined separately in a boiling process. The output is about 6000 tons a year. I don't know how much is 'scraped off the top' during the normal process. </p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>To look at, the raw salt is obviously dirty. It is turned into a concentrate and then re-crystalised.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>There are people making salt in Sumba who do not do this. They strain sea water through mud dug from the tidal zone. To my surprise the salt concentration using this straining method is higher (24%) than the concentrate in the refining process (20%).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Additional question: What is the bulk density of a truck of coconut husks? I am hearing 70 kg/m<sup>3</sup>. Can anyone give additional opinions?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Crispin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear Stovers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>it is a great revelation to us in India that people in Indonesia, a tropical country, use a fire for making salt. Here, the sun does it for us. The use of sun dried dung cakes as fuel may also not be possible in Indonesia.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Yours<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A.D.Karve<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>***<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>