Stone pillars at the Yellow River bend
At Longwan in Jingtai County, the Yellow River curves through a canyon of sandy-conglomerate pillars. The river, farms and cliffs occupy the same broad view.
Baiyin.
Baiyin is a prefecture-level city downstream of Lanzhou, between the Tengger Desert, the Qilian range and the Loess Plateau. Large-scale nonferrous mining began in 1956; the city became prefecture-level in 1958, was withdrawn in 1963 and restored in 1985. The municipal area includes Jingtai County, where the Yellow River Stone Forest rises above a river bend, as well as the industrial urban center known as Copper City.
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Baiyin and its mining landscape
Copper mining shaped Baiyin’s modern urban history. The Flame Mountain Mining Park preserves open-pit remains and exhibits, while the Yellow River Stone Forest lies farther away in Jingtai County.
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Yellow River Stone Forest姜喜宝 · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
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The museum building at Baiyin HuoYanShan National Mining Park.Author not specified on source page · Rights status not determined Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
