The impact of unregulated ionic clay rare earth mining in ...
Jun 01, 2016· The resultant damage from ionic clay surface mining includes severe erosion, air pollution, biodiversity loss and health problems (China Development, 2011). In the Ganzhou region in 2020 alone, the impact was the destruction of 153 square kilometres of forests, the abandonment of 302 mines and the deposition 191 million tons of tailings ( Guo ...