Workers prepare to blow up a rock that fell down during a slide the earlier week in Songpan county, Southwest China's Sichuan province, July 29, 2011. A 50-meter tailings dam, a wall built to hold the ore residue at a electrolytic manganese plant, was partly destroyed by a mudslide after heavy rain on July 21. It led to contamination of the Fujiang River, the main source of drinking water more than 200,000 people rely on in Mianyang, Sichuan province. [Photo/Agencies]
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