Chinese mines and refineries produce most rare earth metals in the world and are practically some important types of rare earth. It has given the Chinese government with full control over an important choke point in global trade.But in northern China, for decades, toxic mud from rare earth processing has been dumped into a 4-class artificial lake. In South-Central China, rare earth mines have snatched dozens of time-grain valleys and left hills from barren red soil. Getting dominance in rare earth came with a huge cost to China, which tolerated severe environmental damage to a large extent. In contrast, in the industrial world, there were strict rules and also stopped accepting limited environmental losses from the industry as of the 1990s.In China, a flat of 2 million people in the interior Mongolia, China on the southern shore of the Gobi desert caused the worst damage around the industrial city of Baotau. Botau calls himself the world capital of the rare earth industry, but the city and its people have tolerate stains for decades of rarely regulated rare earth production for decades.Artificial lake of mud known as the Weekuang Dam keeps the remaining waste after metals, which are extracted from mining ore. During winter and spring, the mud dries up. According to technical papers by Chinese scholars, the dust that blows the lake that blows the lake is contaminated with lead, cadmium, and other heavy metals, including marks of radioactive thorium. In Baotau, the radioactive thorium was dumped into the lake for decades rather than only stored in special repository, as necessary in the West. During the summer rainy season, the mud is coated with a layer of water that combines with poison and thorium. Vicuang Dam, also known as the Telting Lake, is 7 miles north of the yellow river and was built under a thick, waterproof liner in the 1950s that became the standard in the west in the 1970s. Botau’s lake is so large that it can be easily rebuilt with a liner. Any attempt to move and store mud will be a logical challenge. (In the days of the Soviet Union, Thorium dust blew up from a tailing pond in a rare earth processing facility in Estonia to Scandinavia. Immediately after the disintegration of the USSR in 1991, the European Union spent near $ 1.2 billion to construct adjacent pit with 10-foot-legged concrete walls, transferred the mud into it and covered it with a dirt of 30 feet.)In the Gobi desert, 80 miles north of the city, the giant ben obo produces iron ore and rare earth mines, most mildly rare earth of China, such as lanthaneum for oil refinement, and most of its medium rare earth, such as fighter jets and missiles in the missiles. In trade disputes with the US and the European Union, China has stopped the export of Samari to any country since April and restricted heavy rare earth exports, which are separately mined near Longonon in South-Central China.
