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Greenland has the makings of a mining boom. So where is everyone?

Greenland has the makings of a mining boom. So where is everyone?
Staff of Lumina Sustainable Materials at Qaqortorsuaq, Greenland. The mining company has been shipping out minerals since 2019. (Image: Lumina Sustainable Materials)
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By Sune Engel RasmussenA small group of directors from an Australian company travelled recently to the southern tip of Greenland, where they have been planning to extract rare-earth minerals from one of the world’s richest deposits for more than two decades. They didn’t get as far as they had planned.The delegation travelled to the town of Narsaq, home to 1,300 people, by helicopter, the only feasible means of transport in February. In subzero temperatures, a thick blanket of snow covered the mountain pass, rendering the r...

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