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The mining of rare-earth minerals, which are critical for various technologies.
A small clutch of firms — both local operators and foreign juniors — currently hold Greenland mining permits or run active projects, notably Amaroq Minerals (Nalunaq), Lumina Sustainable Materials (Wh...
Greenland’s mining regime centralizes permitting through new Mining Act and the Mineral Resources Act, requires environmental impact assessments and sometimes social sustainability assessments before ...
Greenland’s corporate landscape is anchored by a handful of large, visible players in fishing, air transport and public administration — notably Royal Greenland, Naalakkersuisut and Air Greenland — wh...
’s appeal to policymakers is twofold: a concentration of critical minerals—most notably , graphite, uranium and battery-related metals—that could help diversify Western supply chains away from , and a...
on Self-Government transferred substantial domestic powers—legislative, executive and many judicial competences—in enumerated fields to Greenland’s institutions and gave Greenland control over its sub...
has consistently shown commercial and strategic interest in —seeking access to minerals, Arctic shipping routes and research cooperation—not an explicit political or territorial bid to “acquire” the i...
The record is clear: is aggressively pursuing and repeatedly ties that pursuit to national security, but U.S. officials and analysts also explicitly link the effort to Greenland’s oil, —so natural res...
The 2009 Greenland Self-Government Act carved out a significantly expanded domestic autonomy for Greenland while expressly keeping defence, foreign affairs and other core state functions under Danish ...
Greenland’s political and business leaders are actively courting foreign capital to build mines and the infrastructure that would make extraction viable, framing investment as essential to economic de...