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[[File:Соль - Донор.JPG|thumb|left| A package of [[Artemsil]] salt]]

Soledar's primary industry was the mining and processing of salt. Salt company Artemsil, founded in 1976, was the former owner of Soledar's salt industry, and said that the salt deposits of Soledar are "almost inexhaustible.... in 300 years of exploitation, the salt reserves have only decreased by one percent."<ref name=BBCua12Jan/> There were estimated to be 5 billion tonnes of salt reserves in the Soledar salt mines, with the Soledar salt mine regarded as the largest salt mine in Europe. However Artemsil is now defunt, and the Soledar salt mine has not been in operation since May 2022.<ref name=giantmine>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/giant-ukrainian-salt-mine-takes-center-stage-in-war-11673610354|title=Giant Ukrainian Salt Mine Takes Center Stage in War|first1=Alistair |last1=MacDonald|first2=Oksana |last2=Pyrozhok|work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Battle rages in Ukraine town; Russia shakes up its military|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-says-mining-town-holding-out-against-russian-assault/2023/01/11/6d0d6946-9191-11ed-90f8-53661ac5d9b9_story.html|access-date=January 21, 2023}}</ref><ref name=BI>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-salt-mines-soledar-wagner-russia-claims-seized-2023-1|title=Take a look inside the incredible 'underground city' carved from salt that Russia and Ukraine are battling over|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-salt-mines-soledar-wagner-russia-claims-seized-2023-1|date=14 January 2023|access-date=4 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="reuters">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-fights-russian-assault-salt-mining-town-along-eastern-front-2023-01-09/|title=Russian mercenary firm claims strategic Ukrainian town of Soledar, control unclear|access-date=10 January 2023}}</ref><ref name="WSJ11012023">{{cite news |last1=Trofimov |first1=Yaroslav |title=Russia Claims Success in Ukraine's Soledar as Moscow Names New War Commander |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-claims-success-in-ukraines-soledar-its-first-advance-in-months-11673429457 |access-date=12 January 2023 |work=WSJ |date=11 January 2023}}</ref>

In 2021, the mine provided around 95% of Ukraine's salt.<ref name=giantmine/> Outside of Ukraine, the company exported salt to 22 countries, mostly in the [[Post-Soviet states|former Soviet sphere]], but also about 40 percent to Europe.<ref name=SoledarMines/><ref name=RussiaBan/> [[Russia]] had been an important export destination in particular, with Artemsil having a 24 percent share of the Russian salt market until January 2015, when Russia suspended imports from the company due to the war in Donbas.<ref name=SaltOfTheEarth>{{cite news|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-ukraines-artyomsalt-salt-mine/29993212.html|title=Salt of the Earth: Deep Inside Eastern Ukraine's Massive Soledar Mines|access-date=January 21, 2023|first=Amos |last=Chapple|date=11 January 2023}}</ref><ref name=RussiaBan>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-salt/refile-russia-bans-salt-imports-from-state-ukrainian-firm-idINL6N0V50R120150126|title=Russia bans salt imports from state Ukrainian firm|date=26 January 2015|access-date=26 January 2023|work=Reuters}}</ref>