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RARE-EARTH TRAFIC IN CHINA

11 février 20117 novembre 2014By V2V

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XIN GUANG, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: The new village built in 2008 by the factories ad the government to relocate Xin Guang villagers. The village could welcome thousands of families but stays desperatly empty because the villagers have no money to buy the flats (2000 yuans by square meter) neither the willing to leave their peasant houses for small flats in the middle of nowhere. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: This huge lake (11 km2) is filled with all the toxic remains of the differents Rare-Earth factories around. 9 300 000 tons of rare earth and 95 000 tons of radioactive thorium, extremely dangerous for the villagers living around. This toxic lake is also only 10km from the Yellow River. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

GUYANG, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: Workers at lunch break. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

GUYANG, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: Guards of a Rare Erath factory in Guyang. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

GUYANG, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: Workers at lunch break. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAIYUN OBO, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: An unregulated refinery in Damao (45 km south of Baiyun Obo) is separating the rare-earth from the iron. The factory is taking the raw material from the residue of a Steel factory nearby. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAIYUN OBO, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: An unregulated refinery in Damao (45 km south of Baiyun Obo) is separating the rare-earth from the iron. The factory is taking the raw material from the residue of a Steel factory nearby. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : All Baotou city seems to live on the Rare Earth rythms. At dawn, thousands of bikers are driving to the different mines factories around. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : Two unprotected workers are taking a break in their factory where oxidized rare earth are assimilated to metals to make some alloys, easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : Two unprotected workers are taking a break in their factory where oxidized rare earth are assimilated to metals to make some alloys, easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : In this small factory, oxidized rare earth are assimilated to metals to make some alloys easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : In this small factory's vats, melted oxidized rare earth and metals are cooling down before to become metal alloys easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : A worker is holding a piece of metal alloy made of metals and rare earth, easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : In this small factory, oxidized rare earth are assimilated to metals to make some alloys easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

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BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : In this small factory, oxidized rare earth are assimilated to metals to make some alloys easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

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BAOTOU, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011 : In this small factory, oxidized rare earth are assimilated to metals to make some alloys easy to export by-passing the quotas regulations. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

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GUYANG, CHINA-FEBRUARY, 2011: Since a few years the China State is controling the rare-earth productions, transit and exportation and have shut down all the illegal and unregulated mines and refineries. In Guyang, since last june, all the illegal refineries have been baned and most of them have been closed. Not this one thanks to the ties that's the landlady have with the police and the local government. Miners are carrying raw rare-earths inside the stock. So the raw minerals can be separated. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie/Reportage by Getty Images)

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Publication Le Figaro Magazine

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