JPike and I agree ... you can and will attract deer by the scads to an artificial"lick" made using$6.00/50# bag "White Salt". I don;t have a photo (I should take one), but one of the artificial licks that I started back about 1980 and have kept going by pouring my home brewed mineral mix over a pine knot stump that was sticking out of a hillside .... well the stump is long gone, and the deer have literally dig a 10' high , 5' wide ditch into the hillside.

Iwould suggest that you add about 10#-20# of Dicalcium Phosphate to the mix. It is about $20/50# According to what I have read from studies done by Auburn, LSU, Texas A&M and Penn. State, this mineral helps the deer build a stong frame and helps lactating does manage calcium loss.Rather than pour it on the ground, try putting the mix in a trough made from a plastic barrel cut length wise and buriedalmost to thelip. This will assure theat the deer are getting 100% mineral and is supposed to mitigate them picking up intestinal parasites from the "dirt". But if you don't want to go through all that trouble, dig a shallow hole near a known deer trail and fill it, or bust the bag over a close by stump.