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The long flank of the salt stockpile at the Lusca Salt works on Great Inagua, under a towering cumulus sky.

Solar salt works · The Bahamas

Lusca Salt

Salt from the sea, made by sun and wind. The second-largest solar salt operation in North America.

Our works on Great Inagua, in the south of The Bahamas, harvests salt around the clock and ships it from our own deep-water dock.

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Products we make

  • Raw solar salt
  • Washed industrial salt

Lusca Salt Bahamas Limited · Matthew Town, Great Inagua, The Bahamas

Great Inagua, The Bahamas

Key figures

Lusca Salt in numbers

  • 2ndLargest solar salt operation in North America
  • Up to 2million tonnesSalt production capacity a year
  • 61Crystalliser beds, covering 2,279 acres (about 920 hectares)
  • 175,000US gallons a minuteSeawater pumped, about 660 m³ a minute
  • 24/7Harvest, 365 days a year
  • Own portDeep-water export dock at Man of War Bay
Legal name
Lusca Salt Bahamas Limited
Registered in
The Bahamas
Registry code
12757
Part of Liwathon Group since
2026
Formerly
Morton Bahamas Limited
Address
Lake Windsor
Matthew Town, Inagua
The Bahamas
A causeway runs between pink brine ponds under a blue sky at the Lusca Salt works, Great Inagua.
Evaporation ponds, Great Inagua, The Bahamas

Lusca Salt

Solar salt at industrial scale

Lusca Salt™ runs the solar salt works at Matthew Town, Great Inagua, and its own deep-water export dock at Man of War Bay. Seawater, sun and wind do most of the work. Our team harvests, washes and ships the salt to customers worldwide.

How our salt is made

Heritage

Salt on Great Inagua since the 1840s

  1. 1849

    Matthew Town is founded, named after Governor George Mathew, and salt becomes the island’s industry.

  2. 1936

    The Erickson brothers from Massachusetts start work at Matthew Town and begin to mechanise the harvest.

  3. 1954

    Morton Salt acquires the works and builds the largest solar salt operation in The Bahamas.

  4. 2026

    The works becomes Lusca Salt, a Liwathon Group company.

How our salt is made

From seawater to shipment

Sun and wind provide the energy for evaporation. There is no mining and no heavy refining: just controlled solar evaporation, careful washing and quality checks at every stage.

  1. Seawater rushes from the intake pump station into the supply canal.

    Seawater intake

    We pump seawater into shallow ponds: 175,000 US gallons every minute.

  2. The edge of a pink brine pond under large white clouds.

    Solar evaporation

    Sun and wind concentrate the brine as it moves through around 80 ponds.

  3. Aerial view of pink evaporation ponds and white crystalliser beds on Great Inagua.

    Crystallisation

    When the brine is saturated, salt crystallises in 61 crystalliser beds.

  4. A harvester conveyor loads freshly harvested salt into a haul truck.

    Harvest and wash

    Harvesters lift the salt around the clock. It is then washed, screened and graded.

  5. The conveyor trestle and loading head of the Lusca Salt export dock at Man of War Bay, seen from the water.

    Stockpile and ship

    Salt is stockpiled, then loaded directly from the works onto ocean-going bulk carriers at our deep-water dock.

Products

What we produce

We supply salt to customers worldwide. We market it as Premium Bahamas Salt, under the Group’s Bahamas Salt™ trademark.

  • Salt pours from the harvester conveyor into a trailer.

    Raw solar salt

    Bulk salt for de-icing and industrial use. Our core product, shipped at scale.

  • Tracks across the white salt stockpile at Great Inagua, with the loading pier on the horizon.

    Washed industrial salt

    Washed salt for industrial and water-conditioning use.

The floodlit salt stockpile and radial stacker at dusk, Great Inagua.

Our salt brand

Bahamas Salt™

Premium Bahamas Salt, from Great Inagua.

Bahamas Salt is our trademark for premium solar salt made in The Bahamas. Lusca Salt makes it; Bahamas Salt is the name it carries to market, and we are proud of it.

Standards

Quality, safety and the environment

We maintain the standards established at the works for product quality, environmental management and safety. The Group’s Code of Conduct applies across the operation.

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