Gallery

From survey outline to finished pan.

Sites across Thoothukudi, Veppalodai and the wider east coast — pans under formation, harvest season, aerial layouts and the machines that build them.

Wide view of crystallizer salt pans filled with brine near the coast
Crystallizer beds ready for harvest
Thoothukudi
White salt mounds piled beside brine reservoirs at a salt works
Harvested salt mounds at the works
Thoothukudi
Satellite view of a developed salt pan block outlined in yellow
Developed salt pan block — survey outline
Thoothukudi
Satellite view of coastal salt pan fields near Veppalodai
Coastal pan development near Veppalodai
Veppalodai
Workers raking white salt into ridges across shallow evaporation pans
Harvest season on the pans
Thoothukudi
Salt and earth mounds reflected in a still brine pool
Stockpiles and bunds
Ramanathapuram
Aerial top-down view of geometric salt pan fields along the coast
Geometry of a finished pan layout
East Coast
Geometric salt pans with machinery on the horizon
Formation works in progress
Thoothukudi
Yellow JCB 3DX excavator at an earthworks site
JCB 3DX excavator on site
Thoothukudi
Red Massey Ferguson 241 DI tractor on dry coastal terrain
Massey Ferguson 241 DI
Thoothukudi