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China lead mine plan weighs heavily on Myanmar tribe
- On June 6, 2025, hundreds of Pradawng tribespeople protested at a Chinese joint venture’s lead milling facility in Pekon township, Myanmar.
- The protest followed increased mining driven by rising lead demand for batteries amid Myanmar’s fractured governance since the 2021 coup and ongoing civil war.
- Locals fear environmental damage, health risks to children, and loss of ancestral land profits, while blockading roads and threatening equipment seizure.
- Khun Khine Min Naing, a leader from Pradawng, emphasized that their demands focus solely on securing the Indigenous rights that rightly belong to them, and called for a halt to mining operations until the conflict ends.
- Mining operations nearly doubled between 2018 and 2024, exporting 49,000 tonnes of lead ore worth US$20 million to China in 2023, highlighting exploitation risks for local communities.
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No consent, no compensation, ‘only stones for our children’: Myanmar tribe defies Chinese-led lead mining in Shan state
PEKON (Myanmar), June 6 — Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture’s giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of their ancestral homeland for lead ore. Demand for the heavy metal is forecast to rise, driven by its use in the batteries needed for the global energy transition. But its extraction can pollute the environment and the Pradawng tribespeople car…
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China lead mine plan weighs heavily on Myanmar tribe
Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture's giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of their ancestral homeland for lead ore.
China Lead Mine Plan Weighs Heavily On Myanmar Tribe
Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture's giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of their ancestral homeland for lead ore.
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In the Burmese hills, a Chinese lead extraction project, encouraged by the electric battery boom, threatens to destroy the livelihoods of a small tribe that has organized its defense, for fear of "disappearing.""We don't have the plan to exchange what our people have to...
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