Sentence examples for earth mining from inspiring English sources

A Chinese official said on Tuesday that pollution worries about rare earth mining were sincere.

Pinstriped investment bankers pack conferences, and newsletters promote shares, in rare earth mining companies.

It said repeatedly in the statement that this was the first designation of national rare earth mining areas.

The Chinese government is now trying to consolidate dozens of small rare earth mining companies into three state-owned giants.

He added that rare earth mining outside China remained very profitable even with the price decline, which has brought the market back to the level of last spring.

By contrast, the Chinese government does not allow any foreign purchases of minority or majority stakes in its rare earth mining sector.

And rare earth mines are being developed in South Africa, Greenland and Canada.

China has maintained that opening up additional rare earth mines risks damaging the environment.

Across China, rare earth mines have scarred valleys by stripping topsoil and pumping thousands of gallons of acid into streambeds.

Half the heavy rare earth mines have licenses and the other half are illegal, industry executives said.

Another big rare earth mine, run by the American company Molycorp, is scheduled to reopen in Mountain Pass, Calif., after a decade-long suspension of operations.