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      <description><![CDATA[It is a strange kind of wealth that runs in a line. The Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Basin - known everywhere by its blunt portmanteau, Kryvbas - is not a broad province but a ribbon: a strip of ore-bearing rock barely two to seven kilometers wide, threading nearly a hundred kilometers from north to south through central Ukraine. Squeezed into roughly 300 square kilometers along the valleys of the Inhulets and Saksahan rivers, it holds what is arguably the greatest concentration of iron ore in all of Eastern Europe. Everything around it - the mines, the mills, the long city that shares its name - grew from that seam in the ground.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every great mining region has its origin figure, the one who understood what the ground was worth before the world caught up. For Kryvbas that man was Alexander Pol, a local industrialist remembered as the forefather of modern iron mining here. It was his conviction - that these ...]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Modern Kryvbas is a landscape of giants. ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the largest and most modern steel company in the country, anchors the region with the city's only steel mill and its own ore facilities. Around it, other mining companies - controlled today by firms such as Rudoma...]]></description>
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