You can eat them, you can grind them up and salt your driveway with them. You can throw them through a TV screen (Elvis reference). So many uses! It's Himalayan salt. They weigh about a pound and a half. About 3 by 3 1/2 inches. Yours may be darker or lighter. Doesn't include the candle. Yoou could probably use it as an incubator for baby fish that grow up in a brackish envoronment.