China Nickel Capital: Jinchuan Old PhotosNickel Capital of China · A book of documentary photographs

Thirty-five years before this book, the site was bare Gobi desert. It became the country’s nickel-industry base and platinum-group refining center — producing over 88% of China’s nickel and 90% of its platinum-group metals. These 79 plates open the 1995 commemorative Records of Jinchuan Non-Ferrous Metals Company.