An aerial photo shows a salt lake on Aug 14. The Lop Nor, once China’s second-largest salt lake and located in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, became a well-known barren area since it dried up in the 1970s. But now, for the extraction of rich sylvite resources, underground natural brines have been pumped out into salt lakes and the Lop Nor has recovered.The SDIC Xinjiang Luobupo Potash Co Ltd has been mining local sylvite resources since 2000, and the underground sylvite has turned into a priceless fortune. [Photo/Xinhua]
