Pale brownish celestine-rich salt rocks were found near the Franciuszek Müller gallery, in the chambers of the 3rd level in the Wieliczka Salt Mine. The complex of rock salts subjected to exploration occurred within a large seam approximately 15 m thick. Detailed research revealed that the salt has the form of a block incorporated within the gray salts body and being similar to other blocks of green salts, well known in the upper part of the deposit. A characteristic petrographical feature of the pale brown rock salt owed to the presence of celestine (SrSO 4 ). That strontium mineral was re-examined, using X-ray powder data, and scanning microscope observations, with EDS analysis.The investigated rock salts exhibited a mineral association of halite (main component), anhydrite, celestine, calcite, gypsum, clay materials, iron compounds and a small amount of bitumen. In terrigenous sediments and the insoluble part of salt occurred higher content of strontium that in halite. Celestine crystals were observed in two forms: elongated platy crystals, forming fan-shaped aggregates and granular aggregates, strongly associated with anhydrite. On carbonate and sulphate strontium usually appearing as needle shaped aggregates of celestine. No barium minerals were observed.The development and paragenesis of celestine suggested a post-sedimentary origin of these rocks that ought to be connected with diagenetic processes. An important observation that confirmed that thesis was the transformation of fine crystalline anhydrite into platy crystals, recrystallization and primary accumulation of strontium, as a result of evaporation processes.Keywords: rock salt, Badenian, Wieliczka, strontium, celestine, geochemistry types of salts were observed mainly in the east section of the deposit. It was established at the early stage of studies that this kind of salt did not match the surrounding formations and displayed clearly diverse properties and chemical composition.The purpose of this paper was to collect all of the available data on the so-called strontium and barium salts and present the results of our new studies completed last year. The main assumptions of this study consisted in the verification of the old data and confirmation of previous hypotheses on the formation of the type of salt