A mineral lick (also known as a salt lick) is a place where animals can go to lick essential minerals nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals. Mineral licks can be naturally occurring (natural licks) or artificial (such as blocks of salt that farmers place in pastures for livestock to lick). Natural licks are common, and they provide the biometals (sodium, calcium iron, phosphorus, zinc, and trace elementsrequired in the springtime for bone, muscle and other growth in deer and othe