Six men and a woman who had been illegally prospecting in remote mountains near the Mongolian border froze to death in a blizzard, China’s Xinhua news agency said yesterday.
Fourteen others were rescued earlier this week after two out of the group of 23 managed to walk out and seek help. The group had been trapped by about 2m of snow in the Halahate mountains on January 13. Rough bands of Chinese gold prospectors roam Xinjiang, Tibet and other remote mountain areas, hoping to strike it rich. Their prospecting and mining can pollute mountain streams, but the remoteness of the areas means they are seldom policed. Xinjiang, which borders Central Asia, is suffering from an unusually cold and snowy winter this year.
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