Gold mining in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) is causing “irreversible environmental damage and poisoning of drinking water sources with cyanide, arsenic, mercury and lead”, according to a new report by the Tibetan Centre for…
Hazards Of Mining For the existence and development of human society it is necessary to conserve the environment and to simultaneously meet man’s demand for materials through the continuing exploration of mineral resources.
Chromite Chromite reserves in Tibet are the largest in today’s political China and the reserves in ‘TAR’ alone make up 40 per cent of what China claims as its national reserve.
THE MINERAL resources of Tibet are high in quality and rich in quantity and variety. This fact had been known to Tibetans for several centuries, yet they did not exploit the resources for economic gain or for any…