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A Row Over Rare-Earth Deposits Could Bring Down Greenland s Government

NORDFOTO/AP toggle caption NORDFOTO/AP 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

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