Tag: brittle
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Undermining China: towns sink after mines close
By David Stanway HELIN, China (Reuters) – Deep in the coal heartlands of northern Shanxi province, people in Helin village are fighting a losing battle as the ground beneath them crumbles: patching up cracks, rebuilding walls and filling in sinkholes caused by decades of coal mining. Around 100 pits in Helin – buried in the…