{"id":898016,"date":"2026-09-19T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898016\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T18:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:24:27","slug":"how-chinas-nickel-boom-left-one-village-sitting-next-to-a-mountain-of-slag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898016\/","title":{"rendered":"How China&#8217;s nickel boom left one village sitting next to a mountain of slag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/caixin\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caixin<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Xinhai Technology has not disclosed information of nickel-slag storage as required by new code<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260916 Caixin\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A mountain of nickel slag looms in Jiaoshan in China&#8217;s eastern Shandong province. (Photo by Bao Zhiming)<\/p>\n<p>BAO ZHIMING, Caixin<\/p>\n<p>September 19, 2026 13:07 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">In the agricultural heartland of China&#8217;s eastern Shandong province, a colossal &#8220;black mountain&#8221; casts a long shadow over the wheat and corn fields of Jiaoshan village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caixin Xinhai Technology has not disclosed information of nickel-slag storage as required by new code A mountain of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,22675,99,46290,164,8278,2351,35068,1919,125088,13883,22634,229584,12655],"class_list":["post-898016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boom","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-economy","tag-how","tag-left","tag-mountain","tag-next","tag-nickel","tag-one","tag-sitting","tag-slag","tag-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}