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Salt production once shaped the location of entire towns, built around evaporation ponds or brine wells long before refrigeration made preservation less urgent. Traditional producers still flood shallow coastal pans and rely on sun and wind to concentrate the brine over several weeks, a method largely unchanged for centuries in some regions. Industrial producers, by contrast, now extract salt through solution mining, pumping water underground to dissolve deposits and drawing the resulting brine to the surface for processing, a faster method that has largely displaced pan evaporation in bulk commodity production. Artisanal sea salt, harvested by hand from surface crusts, commands a much higher price despite representing a tiny fraction of global output, valued for mineral traces that bulk refined salt lacks.

According to the passage, which TWO statements are correct? (select all that apply)

Traditional coastal salt pans rely on sun and wind to concentrate brine.Solution mining has largely displaced pan evaporation in bulk commodity production.Artisanal sea salt represents the majority of global salt output.Refrigeration increased the urgency of salt production for preservation.Industrial solution mining is described as slower than traditional pan evaporation.