Baiyun Ebo

• (from Wade–Giles) Paiyun-opo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 白雲鄂博／白云鄂博 (Báiyún Èbó).

Baiyun Ebo

1. Synonym of Bayan Obo: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1993, Barnett, A. Doak, “Steel City in Inner Mongolia: Baotou”, in China's Far West: Four Decades of Change‎, Westview Press, →ISBN, LCCN 93-4194, OCLC 28111813, page 70:

     In the 1920s, a geological survey team of Chinese and Swedes had first located iron at Baiyun Ebo, a little over 90 miles due north of Baotou. More iron was discovered there in the mid-1940s, but none was exploited at that time. Soon after 1949, a team of experts spent three years surveying the area and concluded that the iron reserves at Baiyun Ebo totaled about 1 billion tons (a figure that subsequently was raised to 1.2 billion), making it one of China’s richest iron deposits.

   • 2016 August 9, “China to crack down on illegal rare earth mining”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 10 August 2016:

     HOHHOT - China will continue to crack down on illegal mining, processing and sales of rare earth elements, experts said on Monday. […]
     Monitoring systems have been created in key mining districts such as Baiyun Ebo in Inner Mongolia, Ganzhou in Jiangxi province, and Maoniuping in Sichuan province.