Before he knew it, he was signing a contract with Pie Town Productions for the new show. The couple would buy, fix up and flip 13 houses in 13 episodes. Although the El Moussas were paid $10,000 per episode, the money they used to buy the houses was from their past investments, Christina El Moussa said.
As the water from this sea evaporated, salt crystals formed from the brine, along with other useful minerals such as gypsum (used for wall plaster) and potash (used for fertiliser). Rock salt is mined at Winsford in Cheshire, Boulby in North Yorkshire and Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland.
The cold weather in Britain will see the gritters out on the road, but rather than making use of the traditional grit, gritters now spread rock salt. Rock salt itself is now mined in huge amounts, and such mines are located all around the world. Brown in colour, rock salt bears more resemblance to grit than it does to table salt. In Roman times table salt itself was mined, and although modernisation now means machines do the work of manual miners, this just means that more salt is being mined than ever. In Britain the majority of rock salt comes from County Antrimâs Irish Salt Mining and Exploration Company, Teessideâs Cleveland Potash, and Cheshireâs Winsford Rock Salt Mine. These mines go deep underground, and bore into salt deposits formed many millions of years ago.