The Downstream Effects of China's Rare Earth Mining

18.07.2025    NPR News    2 views
The Downstream Effects of China's Rare Earth Mining

China has nearly cornered the arena in rare earth minerals which are a necessary component to much of our apparatus this day But China sources several of those rare earths and other heavy metals from neighboring Myanmar And the ramped up in production there is causing downstream environmental concerns in Thailand We go to Thailand to understand the issue

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