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Known for its colorful pink hues and rich salt deposits, Lake Retba, or Lac Rose, is a driving force of Senegal’s economy. But extracting salt from a hypersaline lake comes with its fair share of risks for local miners.

00:00 – Introduction
01:06 – Salt Mining in Lake Retba
03:11 – Why Is Lake Retba So Salty – And Pink?
04:06 – Collecting & Piling The Salt
04:51 – Transporting 55-Pound Basins Of Salt
06:06 – The Physical Toll of Salt Mining
06:54 – History of Senegal’s Salt Industry
07:29 – Senegal’s Colorful Salt Wells
08:16 – The ‘Salt Queen’ of Fatick
08:57 – Adding Iodine to Salt in West Africa
09:41 – Salt Production Around The World
11:02 – How Flooding Impacted Lake Retba
11:53 – Urbanization & Lake Retba’s Ecology
12:55 – A Way of Life in Senegal

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