Salt Range

Salt Range
Salt Range and Motorway M2
Highest point
Peak	Sakesar
Elevation	1,522 m (4,993 ft)
Listing	Mountains of Pakistan
Geography
Salt Range Location within Punjab, Pakistan Salt Range Location within Pakistan
Location	Punjab, Pakistan
Range coordinates	32°40′30″N 72°47′35″E
Climbing
Easiest route	M-2 motorway
Normal route	Kallar Kahar

The Salt Range (Urdu: کوہِ نمک; Punjabi: لوݨا پہاڑی دھارا), historically known as Koh-i-Jud (Urdu: کوہِ جود), is a mountain range in the northern Punjab, Pakistan, deriving its name from its extensive deposits of rock salt (known as Himalayan salt). The range extends along the south of the Potohar Plateau and the north of the Jhelum River. The Salt Range contains the large mines of Khewra, Kalabagh, and Warcha, which yield vast supplies of salt. Coal of a medium quality is also found here. The highest peak of the range is Sakesar.

In the Himalayas and the Salt Range, rock containing fossil of marine life go back to the Ediacaran period (up to 570 million years ago), which shows these rocks have developed out of sea sediments, and that where the Himalayas are now was once a sea.