China gobbles Amazon rainforest ore to clean its polluted skies
It is turning to Brazil for its resources instead; the latter's exports are booming, but its forests are vanishing
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A BID by China to clean up pollution in its biggest cities and industrial towns is fuelling a push to mine resource riches on the other side of the globe in the Amazon rainforest - one of the most environmentally sensitive areas on Earth.
Smog-laden skies across the world's most-populated country prompted the government to impose curbs on a domestic steel industry that uses coal-fired blast furnaces to melt iron ore. That's led to increased demand for higher-grade ore from overseas that can produce more steel with fewer emissions, and profit margins on those shipments have surged.
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