Gracelyn Baskaran
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Jan
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For those heavy rare earths, China actually had 99% of processing capabilities.
Now, we need those heavy rare earths, and while the U.S.
has rare earths, we don't have a lot of those heavy rare earths.
What we have in Greenland are two of the biggest rare earth deposits in the world, and they are particularly well endowed with those heavy rare earths.
So, you know, if we want to process those and then turn them into end technologies, we are going to have to go beyond our borders, which is what makes Greenland
Particularly attractive, but we can come back to this later.
It's a very complicated mining jurisdiction.
A couple of things.
So the first thing is, from the time that I mine and I get these minerals out of the ground, I've got to get them to the port, right?
And Greenland has very little infrastructure.
It has a couple hundred miles of roads, like less than 200 miles of roads.
So I need a lot of transportation infrastructure, whether it's road, rail, got to further develop the ports.
The second thing we need is we need a lot more energy infrastructure.
Globally, mining uses close to a fifth of the world's energy.
And so in a place like Greenland, where you have the lowest population density in the world, we're going to have to build a lot of energy infrastructure.
The third thing, mining is not well-loved in Greenland.
So there are a couple of high-profile projects that have actually gotten stopped because communities don't want the mining.
And we know that that social license to operate is actually very precarious globally, but particularly in Greenland.
And the final thing I would say is there is a changing policy in Greenland.
And an example of that is rare earths are rarely found alone.
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