Talk:Open-pan salt making

Proposed merge

 * Strongly oppose merge – this page is about an industrialised process. If any merging takes place, BOTH pages should be merged to a new page with an appropriate common title, such as 'Salt making process (by evaporation)'.EdJogg 15:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Strongly oppose merge – two pages differ in so many key ways - scale, application of artificial heat sources, location, source of raw materials etc. that there is no benefit from merging the two. Another page - "Salt making processes" could link to these  and also vacuum extraction, this has already been started in the Salt page. Salinae 23:00, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Strongly oppose merge – I agree with the previous comments. There is a difference between evaporating brine from what are basically large pans with the application of heat and the evaporation of water from lagoons by sunlight and wind. CustardJack (talk) 17:19, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Update of previous page
I have not discussed other open pan sites in coastal locations at the current stage but will review this. I have also updated the discussion of the 19th century industry as it did not appear to have much detail about the actual process. I have tried to accomodate the well written description of different 19th century professions into the page without editing them and hope this has been achieved. All the best. Hewitsonc (talk) 15:35, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I have provided an updated reference of other historic open pan salt making sites in the world. However, I appreciate the list is limited and this process was occurring in North America for example. I have provided the descriptions as defined in the English Heritage report on the salt industry dated to 1998. These help provide a structure for the salt industry as a whole in the UK. I appreciate that these do not take into account a world wide view. However, these structures did exist in other European countries. An update linked to ALAS sites will be provided when possible.

Vacuum confusion
Does anyone know why the first paragraph mentions vacuum? Vacuum doesn't appear to be part of the open-pan process. It looks like that text was pasted in as part of the original text of the page. Any objections to removing that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevegt (talk • contribs) 19:20, 21 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Noticed that myself just now. It may possibly be used in some modern versions of the process but seems anomalous to state this as universal in the lede. It is unlikely to have featured historically as it would have been technologically difficult at best. There is no further elaboration on use of a vacuum in the body of the article. I'll remove it. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:43, 7 July 2020 (UTC)


 * ...the very open-pan nature makes a vacuum aspect seem unlikely, certainly in the traditional/historical version. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:54, 7 July 2020 (UTC)