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

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The Wall Street Journal

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4.25.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Before this year, how much time did you spend thinking about Greenland?

0:10.0

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

0:14.0

That's our colleague, Suna Rosmussen.

0:16.0

I've tried to convince my editors to go to send me to Greenland for a couple of years,

0:21.9

but with very little success.

0:25.3

But then all of a sudden...

0:26.8

And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland.

0:31.8

Everyone's talking about Greenland.

0:34.1

Well, we need Greenland for national security purposes.

0:40.3

I've been told that for a long time, long before. It can be quite seductive to just listen to the headlines coming from President Trump

0:46.3

about seizing control of a foreign country.

0:49.3

And I think we're going to get it. One way or the other, we're going to get it.

0:57.9

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

1:02.7

you see that the whole, the issue is so much more complicated,

1:04.9

as with many other things, right?

1:07.9

Because of President Trump's interest in Greenland,

1:12.1

this past February, Sunnah finally got to live his dream.

1:18.9

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

1:22.6

So I just wanted to go because it's a place like no other, right?

1:24.1

Now here's my chance.

1:32.0

And what was your impression when you finally went?

1:35.4

Oh, Greenland is a mind-blowing place.

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