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Sam Penrod Reporting While we gear up for a storm, Colorado is still dealing with the effects of two previous snowfalls. Some roads closed before the Christmas holidays still aren't open. However, help is on the way in the form of Utah salt.
The salt mine is in Redmond and the special order came over the weekend. Since then crews have been working around the clock loading up sixty rails cars. Each car of the train can carry about 100 tons of salt, and the way the winter is going in Colorado right now, it's really needed.
As Denver and Colorado try to dig out from another major snow storm a salt mine in Central Utah is coming to the rescue.
Doug Anderson, Redmond Minerals: "They normally have a stockpile of about twenty-five to thirty thousand tons of product and they went through that in just a matter of a week or two with the storm they had over there."
Redmond Minerals is now loading up sixty rail cars, which are headed to Denver. Colorado is the company's biggest customer outside of Utah and even though it is expensive to ship the salt, Redmond salt performs much better than average road salt.

While the majority of the rock salt is sold in bulk to keep the highways clear of ice, it's also sold so you can use it right at your dinner table.
Redmond Real Salt as it is marketed, contains fifty natural minerals and doesn't undergo any bleaching process.
Doug Anderson, Redmond Minerals: "People are seeing the nutritional value, as well as the taste difference, it tastes better and it's the number one seasoned salt selling in health food stores across the country."

About 400-thousand tons of real salt is mined a year, it's believed another 50-million tons of salt is underground.
Doug Anderson, Redmond Minerals: "It's from a deposit that geologists tell us has been here millions of years."
The train headed out for Denver late this afternoon and is scheduled to arrive with all of the Redmond salt sometime on Friday, hopefully before the next storm.
