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[[File:Salt Range.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Salt Range in [[Mianwali District]], [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]], Pakistan]]
The '''Salt Range''' ({{lang-pnb|{{nq|سلسلہ کوہ نمک}}}}) is a [[mountain range]] in the north of [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]]<ref name=eb>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Salt Range |volume=24 |page=94}}</ref> province of [[Pakistan]], deriving its name from its extensive deposits of [[rock salt]].<ref name=eb/><ref>[https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6118/ The Salt Range and Khewra Salt Mine] ''whc.unesco.org'', accessed 21 May 2018</ref> The range extends along the south of the [[Potohar Plateau]] and the north of the [[Jhelum River]]. The Salt Range contains the great mines of [[Khewra]], [[Kalabagh]] and [[Warcha]] which yield vast supplies of salt.<ref name=eb/> [[Coal]] of a medium quality is also found.<ref name=eb/> The Salt Range starts from the Bakralla and Tilla Jogi ridges in the east and extends to the west of River Jhelum
In the Himalayan and 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 we have the Himalayas now was once a sea.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Habib |first=Irfan |title=People's History of India - Prehistory |publisher=Tulika Books |year=2021 |isbn=9789382381525 |location=New Delhi |pages=6 |language=English}}</ref>
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