Marketed as a premium, natural alternative to table salt, pink Himalayan salt can sell for up to 30 times the price. However, this salt doesn't actually come from the Himalayas. Loading audio narration... Instead, the world's largest deposit of pink salt — the Khewra salt mine — sits about 155 miles west of the Himalayas in Pakistan's Punjab province, in a region known as the Potohar Plateau. Pakistan's Punjab province where most pink salt comes from.