We need Greenland very badly,” declared President Donald Trump, emphasizing the geostrategic significance of the Arctic. The ...

The clean energy transition that the Biden administration touted as the focus of its industrial policy required large amounts ...

Greenland has signaled it may seek mineral investment from countries like China if the EU and U.S. continue to delay support ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue ... the geopolitical pressure from China’s domination of the rare earths market has opened Greenland to exploration.

But currently, “China has no footprint at all in Greenland mining,” according to Marc Lanteigne, a professor at the University of Tromsø: The Arctic University of Norway, who described China ...

Beyond strategic positioning, Greenland holds a fortune in untapped natural resources. Kvanefjeld project hosts over 1 billion tons of rare earth elements, with China holding a significant stake.

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Greenland’s mining minister has warned that Donald Trump’s proposal to buy the Arctic territory can be ...

“Do we want the Arctic Ocean to transform into a new South China Sea, fraught with militarization and competing territorial claims?” A Chinese-backed rare earth mining project in Greenland ...

Hype about a possible mining boom in Greenland ... it wants to shift focus away from Denmark and strengthen economic and diplomatic ties with other countries, including China.

US and Danish officials lobbied the developer of Greenland ... to ease China’s near-total control of their extraction and processing. Greg Barnes, CEO of privately held Tanbreez Mining ...

The Chinese government is trying to increase its relations with Greenland, like the United States, for mainly the same reasons, the U.S. intelligence committee warned in an annual report released ...

That could soon turn Greenland ... China can manipulate the market on rare earths by, say, increasing production to drive down prices. This makes it less economically feasible for other mining ...