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Iron-Smelting Plant - Kabul

This photo taken on September 17, 2025 shows an interior view of an iron-smelting plant in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. A total of 45 major iron-smelting plants are operational in Afghanistan, with over 500 million U.S. dollars invested in the sector, achieving full self-sufficiency, the chairman of the iron-smelting union announced Tuesday. Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua/ABACPARESS.COM

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Iron-Smelting Plant - Kabul

A man works at an iron-smelting plant in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, September 17, 2025. A total of 45 major iron-smelting plants are operational in Afghanistan, with over 500 million U.S. dollars invested in the sector, achieving full self-sufficiency, the chairman of the iron-smelting union announced Tuesday. Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua/ABACPARESS.COM

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Iron-Smelting Plant - Kabul

People work at an iron-smelting plant in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, September 17, 2025. A total of 45 major iron-smelting plants are operational in Afghanistan, with over 500 million U.S. dollars invested in the sector, achieving full self-sufficiency, the chairman of the iron-smelting union announced Tuesday. Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua/ABACPARESS.COM

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Iron-Smelting Plant - Kabul

People work at an iron-smelting plant in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, September 17, 2025. A total of 45 major iron-smelting plants are operational in Afghanistan, with over 500 million U.S. dollars invested in the sector, achieving full self-sufficiency, the chairman of the iron-smelting union announced Tuesday. Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua/ABACPARESS.COM

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Iron-smelting plant opened in Kabul

STORY: Iron-smelting plant opened in Kabul SHOOTING TIME: March 26, 2024 DATELINE: March 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the iron-smelting plant STORYLINE: An iron-smelting plant has been opened in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, as part of efforts to get the war-torn country towards achieving self-sufficiency, local television TOLOnews reported on Monday. "The opening of the iron-smelting factory is important for the economic growth and development of the country," the private media outlet quoted Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, acting deputy prime minister on economic affairs, as saying. Baradar also noted that the administration would continue to support the investment in Afghanistan as part of efforts to stand on its feet. Earlier, Nooruddin Azizi, acting minister of industry and commerce, stated that the country had achieved self-sufficiency in 134 domestic products and semi-self-sufficiency in another 100 items. Xinhua News Agenc

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AFGHANISTAN-KABUL-IRON-SMELTING PLANT

(240326) -- KABUL, March 26, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on March 26, 2024 shows a newly-opened iron-smelting plant in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. An iron-smelting plant has been opened in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, as part of efforts to get the war-torn country towards achieving self-sufficiency, local television TOLOnews reported on Monday. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KABUL-IRON-SMELTING PLANT

(240326) -- KABUL, March 26, 2024 (Xinhua) -- A staff member works at a newly-opened iron-smelting plant in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, March 26, 2024. An iron-smelting plant has been opened in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, as part of efforts to get the war-torn country towards achieving self-sufficiency, local television TOLOnews reported on Monday. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)

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A Metallurgical Company in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - FEBRUARY 11, 2024 - Loaders transport ore to a smelting workshop at a metallurgical company in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, February 11, 2024.

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A Metallurgical Company in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - FEBRUARY 11, 2024 - Workers warm up a coal furnace at a smelting plant in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, Feb. 11, 2024.

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A Metallurgical Company in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - FEBRUARY 11, 2024 - Workers observe molten iron injected into a finished mold at a smelting plant in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, Feb. 11, 2024.

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A Metallurgical Company in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - FEBRUARY 11, 2024 - Workers open a furnace hole to prepare for the drainage of molten iron at a smelting plant in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, Feb 11, 2024.

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A Metallurgical Company in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - FEBRUARY 11, 2024 - Workers observe molten iron injected into a finished mold at a smelting plant in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, Feb. 11, 2024.

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A Metallurgical Company in Zhangye

ZHANGYE, CHINA - FEBRUARY 11, 2024 - Workers observe molten iron injected into a finished mold at a smelting plant in Zhangye city, Gansu province, China, Feb. 11, 2024.

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A Precision Casting Enterprise in Xinghua

XINGHUA, CHINA - JANUARY 5, 2024 - A worker smelting at a precision casting enterprise in Chenbao town industrial park in Xinghua city, East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 5, 2024.

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A Precision Casting Enterprise in Xinghua

XINGHUA, CHINA - JANUARY 5, 2024 - A worker smelting at a precision casting enterprise in Chenbao town industrial park in Xinghua city, East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 5, 2024.

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A Precision Casting Enterprise in Xinghua

XINGHUA, CHINA - JANUARY 5, 2024 - A worker smelting at a precision casting enterprise in Chenbao town industrial park in Xinghua city, East China's Jiangsu province, Jan 5, 2024.

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XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(231226) -- BEIJING, Dec. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Injured people receive treatment in a hospital in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Dec. 25, 2023. An explosion at a smelting furnace in an industrial park in Morowali Regency of Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province occurred on Sunday morning, killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others, according to Rusmadi, head of the operation team of the Search and Rescue Office of Central Sulawesi Province. (Photo by Ifan Bente/Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-CENTRAL SULAWESI-SMELTING FURNACE-EXPLOSION-INJURED-TREATMENT

(231225) -- CENTRAL SULAWESI, Dec. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Injured people receive treatment in a hospital in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Dec. 25, 2023. An explosion at a smelting furnace in an industrial park in Morowali Regency of Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province occurred on Sunday morning, killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others, according to Rusmadi, head of the operation team of the Search and Rescue Office of Central Sulawesi Province. (Photo by Ifan Bente/Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-CENTRAL SULAWESI-SMELTING FURNACE-EXPLOSION-INJURED-TREATMENT

(231225) -- CENTRAL SULAWESI, Dec. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Injured people receive treatment in a hospital in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Dec. 25, 2023. An explosion at a smelting furnace in an industrial park in Morowali Regency of Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province occurred on Sunday morning, killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others, according to Rusmadi, head of the operation team of the Search and Rescue Office of Central Sulawesi Province. (Photo by Ifan Bente/Xinhua)

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INDONESIA-CENTRAL SULAWESI-SMELTING FURNACE-EXPLOSION-INJURED-TREATMENT

(231225) -- CENTRAL SULAWESI, Dec. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Injured people receive treatment in a hospital in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Dec. 25, 2023. An explosion at a smelting furnace in an industrial park in Morowali Regency of Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province occurred on Sunday morning, killing 13 people and injuring dozens of others, according to Rusmadi, head of the operation team of the Search and Rescue Office of Central Sulawesi Province. (Photo by Ifan Bente/Xinhua)

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Victims, Mitsui settle fight over cadmium pollution

TOYAMA, Japan - Kunihiro Takagi (R), leader of a sufferers' group, and Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. President Sadao Senda shake hands, holding documents of agreement, in Toyama, Japan, on Dec. 17, 2013. The compensation issue over one of Japan's four major pollution-caused disease cases reached a complete settlement, as sufferers of cadmium poisoning, known as "Itai-Itai Disease," and the company responsible signed an agreement on it.

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3 die inside ore carrier ship at Oita copper refinery

OITA, Japan - This photo shows the Hong Kong-registered ore carrier Singapore Grace docked at a pier at the Saganoseki refinery of Nikko Smelting & Refining Co. in Oita, southwestern Japan, on June 13. Three workers died the same day after collapsing inside the ship.

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5 workers die refurbishing Okayama copper refinery

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo shows a copper refinery in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, of a Mining & Smelting Co. affiliate, where five workers died July 25 after they were buried under bricks while refurbishing a converter. Mitsui Mining & Smelting said the accident occurred when the cylindrical steel-covered converter, one of three at the site, collapsed.

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We won the case - Itai-itai disease judgment

The plaintiffs won a total victory in the case of cadmium dripping at the Kamioka Mining Plant of Mitsui Mining Co. An interview with a woman at the Kamioka River in the Etchu Plain, the plaintiffs sharing their joy after the verdict, a large amount of waste liquid containing cadmium, Mitsui Kinzoku appealing the verdict, and a meeting between Mitsui Kinzoku and the plaintiffs. A meeting between Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. and the plaintiffs, *Filming date unknown, release date: July 9, 1971.

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Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Tourists visit the ruins of the Hashino iron mining and smelting site, the birthplace of modern Japanese iron industry, in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2015, a day after it and other sites that played a major role in Japan's 19th-century Meiji industrial revolution were added by a UNESCO committee to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing

People celebrate in front of the city government office of Kamaishi, northeastern Japan, on July 6, 2015, the morning after the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to add the city's Hashino iron mining and smelting site as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" to the World Cultural Heritage list. Around 200 children also gathered there to celebrate the decision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ruins of Japan's oldest blast furnace await UNESCO heritage listing

Kumeo Otaki, head of a group aiming to hand down the history of Kamaishi as the birthplace of Japan's modern iron industry, stands by the ruins of the Hashino Iron Mining and Smelting Site in the northeastern Japanese city in Iwate Prefecture on June 14, 2015. The place is one of the recommended sites of the country's modern industrial revolution for registration on the UNESCO World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Annaka, the City of Pollution

A large amount of cadmium was found in the soil of a zinc smelter, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted a field survey. 　 An interview with the deputy director of a zinc refinery in Annaka City, Gunma Prefecture. Farmers protesting to the city hall after their harvest has fallen, *Filming date unknown, release date: May 28, 1969.

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3 die inside ore carrier ship at Oita copper refinery

OITA, Japan - This photo shows the Hong Kong-registered ore carrier Singapore Grace docked at a pier at the Saganoseki refinery of Nikko Smelting & Refining Co. in Oita, southwestern Japan, on June 13. Three workers died the same day after collapsing inside the ship. (Kyodo)

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5 workers die refurbishing Okayama copper refinery

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo shows a copper refinery in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, of a Mining & Smelting Co. affiliate, where five workers died July 25 after they were buried under bricks while refurbishing a converter. Mitsui Mining & Smelting said the accident occurred when the cylindrical steel-covered converter, one of three at the site, collapsed.