Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

格陵兰岛蕴藏着丰富的矿产资源。那么,所有的矿工都去哪里了?

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2025-03-21

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Greenland could satisfy the world’s hunger for minerals, if miners could just start digging. WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen explains why Greenland’s minerals remain mostly untapped, and what bringing these rare earths to the surface could mean to the global supply chain. Further Reading: - Greenland Has the Makings of a Mining Boom. So Where Is Everyone?  - Greenlanders Reject Trump’s Overtures at the Ballot Box  Further Listening: - Why Trump Wants Ukrainian Minerals  - Why an Arctic Treasure Is Spurring Hope and Dread  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Before this year, how much time did you spend thinking about Greenland?

  • Being Danish, I've actually always wanted to go to Greenland.

  • That's our colleague Suna Rasmussen.

  • I've tried to convince my editors to go,

  • to send me to Greenland for a couple of years, but with very little success.

  • But then all of a sudden, I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland.

  • Everyone's talking about Greenland.

  • Well, we need Greenland for national security purposes.

  • I've been told that for a long time.

  • It can be quite seductive to just listen to the headlines coming from President Trump about seizing control of a foreign country.

  • And I think we're gonna get it.

  • One way or the other, we're gonna get it.

  • But once you start digging a little bit, pun intended,

  • you see that the whole, the issue is so much more compl.

  • As with many other things.

  • Right.

  • Because of President Trump's interest in Greenland,

  • this past February, Suna finally got to live his dream.

  • Well, I've sort of grown up with Greenland as part of my sort of awareness since I was a child.

  • So I just wanted to go because it's a place like no other Right now.