Mysterious mines in Myanmar have become important to the world tin market in a sign of how the country’s opening-up is revealing resources obscured during decades of military dictatorship and internal conflict.
The Southeast Asian state has caused a stir in metal-rich countries from Peru to Indonesia thanks to its opencast mines in the Wa region near the Chinese border that has been ruled by an armed ethnic party for more than 25 years.
The region is controlled by the United Wa State party, which has an armed wing and has long had close political and economic ties with China.
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