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Chasing China’s Monazite Monopoly
One of the singular features of Baotou, an industrial city of 2 million people in Inner Mongolia, is a 10-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) lake that is among the most polluted in the world. The artificial lake, referred to by the name of the dam associated with it, Weikuang Dam (or Baogang Tailings Dam), has for decades collected the effluent from minerals processing for China’s globally dominant iron, steel, and rare-earths industries. Built in the late 1950s, the lake contains a highly toxic stew of industrial chemicals with substantial amounts of radioactive thorium, the latter resulting primarily from the processing of monazite ores for rare earths . China has since greatly tightened its environmental regulations and restrictions on mining and minerals processing. For example, largely because of the environmental disaster that is Weikuang Dam, the country doesn’t permit the developme
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Maduro pleads not guilty to new torture-related charges in New York
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Hilary Swank, 52, is pregnant: Oscar winner awaiting third child with Philip Schneider
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Pepsi loses more ground in the soda wars, as KFC switches to Coke
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The Scoop With Completedworks’s Anna Jewsbury: On The Brand’s New London Store
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‘A guy held a knife to my throat and said: play something normal!’ Richard Thompson on crazy crowds, his beloved beret and Sandy Denny’s driving skills
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New Jersey Food Importer Sues to block Trump’s Canada Tariffs
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Russia frees American Stephen Hubbard after over 4 years in prison, during a visit from U.S. envoy Witkoff
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Selma Blair says she used alcohol 'in times of distress' to help with MS symptoms when she was younger
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Global Commercial Insurance Rates Drop 5% in Q3; Signs of Stabilization
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