Traditionally, Azraq was a salt producing community until the early 1990s when its salt production fell in disarray due to a number of socio-economic conditions and unmodernised management and operational practices at the time. Our recent feasibility study of Azraq’s salt reserves demonstrated that optimal levels of salt mining production at of 450K tons yearly can support a sustainable salt production in the next 70 years with the potential to generate XXX JOD year based on