Rare earth mining area "desertification" Dongjiang source "drinking water difficult"

Bare mountains have no vegetation, as if they were stripped of green coats to reveal track scars left by large excavators; soil erosion caused mountainous desertification, with surface temperatures as high as 670 degrees Celsius; rivers near the mining areas became white and turbid The river bed and shoreline are littered with yellowish rare earth tailings...

In Xunwu County, Jiangxi Province, which is rich in ionic heavy rare earths, the reporter saw the severe "aftereffects" left by the vast amount of rare earths that he has exported for the past decades. He is known as "the Jiangnan Desert."

The 45-year-old Xie Rong’s family lives in Shek Pai Village in Xunwu County. Standing in his yard, he can see the 1800-mu Shuang Cha Pavilion mining area on the opposite hill. The rare earth mining began in the 1980s. The pool leaching process used at that time needed to first cut down the trees and weed them. Then, the bulldozers were used to push the whole mountain containing rare earths into the pool and soaked in ammonium water. After dipping into the mother liquor, they were reused. Ammonium bicarbonate or oxalic acid precipitation, commonly known as "Mountain Movement."

At that time, including Xie Rongbang, all households in the village had people working on the mines, and the income was also high in the local area. However, one or two years later, the evil results of the "Moving Mountain Movement" began to appear. The mountain was bald, the water was odor, and the land was desertified. The tailing sand discharged pressure and water to occupy farmland and blocked the river. The villagers no longer dared to drink river water directly, and they did not even dare to use the river water to irrigate the navel oranges planted. Instead, they drew wells and drew water away from the mining area.

Later, well water could not be drunk. Xie Rong helped the mountain spring water from the opposite hillside 1 km away from home. In his yard, the reporter saw the unsterilized water flow out of the thick plastic tube of the thumb and was collected in two 30-liter plastic buckets. "It's better now. It takes about 1 hour to fill up a bucket of water. The winter is slower. We drink too hard here!" said Xie Rong.

Due to factors such as mine consolidation and environmental impact assessment in the mining area, the rare earth ore in the Zhangzhou area has been basically suspended. Since 2009, the government of Xunwu County has invested 5 million yuan to explore the use of thatch and foxtail grasses to cover solid earth in the Shuang Chating mining area, and to plant eucalyptus, Lespedeza, and Other shrubs to retain water. At present, the mining area has initially been regreened, but the water quality and water volume of the river well water are still not very large. It is necessary to invest 20 million yuan to restore the ecological environment for decades.

Xunwu County, as the birthplace of Dongjiang, is the source of drinking water in Hong Kong. In order to allow Hong Kong residents to drink clean water, Xuwu County shut down 106 rare earth mining points, the county's rare earth separation companies have been in production. This has led to local investment attraction is limited, the government tax source shrinks, the people's life is difficult. In 2010, the county's per capita net income of farmers was 2,944 yuan, and the fiscal revenue of 260 million yuan was ranked second to last in Jiangxi's 100 counties (cities, districts), and it is still the country's key county for poverty alleviation and development.

In Dongjiangyuan Village, Sanbiao Town, Dongjiang First Village, the per capita net income of villagers last year was only 1,600 yuan. The reporter saw Xie Guotong, who is closest to the source of the water, and saw that the house is full of adobe houses, the walls are not painted, the windows are not covered with glass, there is no electricity, and there is no television. For a family of four lunches, only half a bowl of pumpkin was eaten.

At present, there are still 27.56 square kilometers of Xunwu County desertification and waste water disposal areas with serious soil erosion that need to be managed urgently. The capital gap is several billion yuan. Zhao Duxian, the county party committee member of Xunwu County, said that Xunwu Rare Earth has made important contributions to the world and the search for Wushui has provided water protection for the downstream people. He hoped that in the past, developed countries, such as the United States and Japan, which made extensive use of the resources of Xunwu rare earth, and Guangdong and Hong Kong, which are enjoying the Dongjiang water, will increase ecological compensation. The central government will also need to step up transfer payments to help restore the ecological environment of the rare earth mining area. Develop ecological economy.

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