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Close ✕Bayan Obo mining district
An iron, rare-earth and niobium deposit in Inner Mongolia, north of Baotou, worked since the 1950s and by a wide margin the largest single source of rare-earth elements in the world.
41.8, 110.0 · approximate · worked from the 1950s; the dominant world rare-earth source since the 1990s
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- supplies Critical minerals for the energy transition — The Inner Mongolian deposit and the adjacent Baotou separation complex are the largest single source of rare-earth elements and of the magnet-grade material made from them.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates