Pakistan's 'Pink Gold'

A young laborer at the Khewra mines cuts up chunks of pink rock salt intended for decorative pieces. 

A worker collects salt stones for loading onto a truck outside the Khewra salt mines. 

A laborer, carrying rock salt for loading onto a railway carriage, stops to pose for a photo on a train-station platform in Khewra. 

Schoolgirls explore a tourist area inside the Khewra mine. 

A guide shines his light onto transparent rock salt for visitors to Khewra.

A woman dressed in a black burqa walks through the salt mines of Khewra.

Workers pack pink salt at a factory to be sold at markets in Karachi.

A man in Lahore applies the final touches to a sculpture made from rock salt. 

Miners and visitors pray at a mosque made from rock salt inside Khewra mines

A Pakistani boy runs past a shop selling lamps and decoration pieces.