Deep in the dry-hot valley of Panzhihua, in China’s Sichuan Province, some of the world’s richest vanadium–titanium magnetite deposits feed a vast mining and smelting industry. Decades of ore extraction, dust plumes, wastewater discharge, and slag deposition have left their mark on the surrounding landscape, and new research shows that the damage reaches far beneath […]
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