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Baotou

Smelter town, China.

About Baotou

Prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, China.1

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Mines

Worked atBayan OboBayan Obo is run by Baotou Steel and China Northern Rare Earth.2

Events

Led toBayan Obo iron deposit foundBayan Obo was found in 1927 as an iron deposit and became China's rare earth source.3

Places

ExamplesTonglingAnother smelter town in China: Baotou.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q569907 (Baotou)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Bulletin 2143, Bayan Obo: Introduction US Geological Survey
  4. Wikidata item Q360326 (Tongling)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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