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Salt was obtained from sources of salt water and placed in large clay pots on furnaces fueled by firewood from nearby forests. When boiling, water would slowly evaporate and salt in solid state would sit
in the pot
, would later be broken into pieces for transportation.
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However, management of salt exploitation by the Spaniards was poor, since there was always shortage of salt in the New Kingdom, which led to setting forth new provisions by the early nineteenth century, a period which coincided with the visit of German intellectual Alexander von Humboldt. Von Humboldt made some contributions to the operating system, the most important of them having to do with the introduction of mines and tunnels for rock salt extraction, which began to be converted into salt grain by 1817. The latter became the first step to eliminating the traditional Indian system of mineral processing. This system of tunnels is still valid currently, albeit with some variations.
