Baiyun Ebo

See also: Báiyún Èbó

English

Alternative forms

• Paiyun-opo (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪ.jun i.boʊ/, /baɪ.jun ə.boʊ/

Proper noun

Baiyun Ebo

1. Synonym of Bayan Obo: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1989 September, “Common Dahlia (Dwarf Dahlia) [大丽花 DA LI HUA]”, in 秦燕 [Qin Yan], editor, China City Flowers [中国城市市花]‎^[1], 1st edition, Hua Xia Press [华夏出版社], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:

     The natural resources happen to be very rich in Baotou. The iron mine on Baiyun Ebo is proved to be a multi-element intergrown mine, which consists of 73 elements. Among them, the reserve iron mineral amounts to 800 million tons, and the reserve of the rare-earth metal ranks the first in the world.

   • 1993, A. Doak Barnett, “Steel City in Inner Mongolia: Baotou”, in China's Far West: Four Decades of Change‎^[2], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

Further reading

• Baiyun Ebo, Baiyunebo, Paiyunopo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.