Environmentalists Celebrate Rare Win as Georgia Swamp Is Saved From Mining Threat

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In Kyrgyzstan, authorities have begun developing the scandalous Kyzyl-Ompol deposit near Lake Issyk-Kul. It was discovered back in 1951: Soviet geologists found in this layer a whole range of rare elements: uranium, titanium, phosphorus, and zirconium. However, the government has been calling the deposit a titaniomagnetite deposit since last year. And despite protests from the local population and concerns from environmentalists, the extraction …