Gallery: Step Inside China’s Hellish, Illicit Steel Factories
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Smoke fills the sky above a steel factory in Inner Mongolia, China.
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A worker takes a break.
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Molten steel gushes past.
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A truck unloads waste, coal and stone.
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Smoke rises from molten metal running down an embankment.
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A worker lingers by a cooling pit.
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Embers fly from a furnace at an unauthorized steel factory.
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Gloves, glasses and a hood do only so much to protect against the heat and embers.
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A worker pours hot steel at a factory in Inner Mongolia, China.
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Time for a smoke break.
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An unauthorized steel factory in Inner Mongolia.
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A worker takes a load off beside a furnace.
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