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Greenland has vast deposits of rare earth metals Long-dominant ruling party behind in opinion polls
COPENHAGEN, April 6 (Reuters) - Greenland holds a parliamentary election on Tuesday that could help decide the fate of vast deposits of rare earth metals which international companies want to exploit.
The Arctic island of 56,000 people, which former U.S. President Donald Trump offered to buy in 2019 only to be told it was not for sale, is part of the Kingdom of Denmark but has broad autonomy.
International companies are watching the election closely as they compete for the right to develop Greenland s untapped deposits of rare earth metals including neodymium, which is used in wind turbines, electric vehicles and combat aircraft.
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COPENHAGEN Greenland holds a parliamentary election on Tuesday that could help decide the fate of vast deposits of rare earth metals which international companies want to exploit.
The Arctic island of 56,000 people, which former U.S. President Donald Trump offered to buy in 2019 only to be told it was not for sale, is part of the Kingdom of Denmark but has broad autonomy.
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International companies are watching the election closely as they compete for the right to develop Greenland’s untapped deposits of rare earth metals including neodymium, which is used in wind turbines, electric vehicles and combat aircraft.
Greenland votes, split on rare earth metals mining
The outcome of parliamentary elections could seal the fate of one of the world s richest uranium and rare earth minerals deposits.
The Kvanefjeld mine could hold the largest deposit of rare-earth metals outside China
Greenlanders cast their ballots in an early parliamentary election on Tuesday.
The result could decide whether the Kvanefjeld mine project gets the go-ahead in the semiautonomous Danish territory.
The country s ruling social democratic Siumut and main opposition Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) parties are split on the issue, Siumut arguing in favor and IA against.
What is the Kvanefjeld mine project?
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Giant icebergs float in the fjord in the southern Greenland town of Narsaq, the site of a controversial Australian-led uranium and rare-earth mining project. The open-pit mine has divided opinion on the island, which goes to the polls on Tuesday. NORDFOTO/AP
Greenlanders are going to the polls on Tuesday in a crucial election that could determine whether the Arctic island taps its vast deposits of rare-earth minerals to fuel eventual independence from Denmark.
The parliamentary election in Greenland has attracted the attention of international companies eyeing its potentially lucrative reserves of substances such as neodymium, an element used to produce very small, very strong permanent magnets for everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines. A climate-change-induced melting of Greenland s ice cap has suddenly made it easier to access those deposits, which include other elements with such exot