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Alorse, R.W., Grant, J.A. (2017). China: Mining Policy – Nonmetals. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_75-1

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