Auteurs sur la Chine. Cartes Chine. La Chine et le Monde. Climatologie. Conférences Chine. Conflits sociaux. Diaspora chinoise. L'eau en Chine. Economie, revenu. Energie. Environnement. Finance en Chine. Forêt biogéographie. Géostratégie, géopolitique de la Chine. Glissement de terrain Shenzen. Golfe de Bohai. Images satellites. Industrie. Jeux Olympiques. Lettres de Cassandre, Pierre Gentelle. Mobilités. Podcast Chine. Pollutions. Populations.
Santé. Séismes. Shanghai. Sites officiels chinois. Tianjin. Tourisme. Transports. Urbain. Exemples de villes chinoises. Vidéos. Vie politique. La Chine au FIG en 2013. Mineral Mining in China. Lake Qarhan is the largest salt lake in China, covering some 5,856 square kilometers (2,261 square miles).
The lake is a playa, a basin that fills with water only occasionally. The playa contains nine smaller but more permanent shallow salt lakes. The largest of these lakes is Dabuxun, shown in this image taken by the Landsat 8 satellite on November 15, 2013. Located on the a high plateau, water evaporates readily from the shallow lakes, leaving behind an abundance of minerals, including sodium chloride, potassium, bromine, halite, gypsum, and magnesium chloride. The square evaporation ponds shown here are used to mine those minerals.