Gracelyn Baskaran
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first heard Jan 2026
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They're usually mined with other things.
And in the case of Greenland, they're actually mined with uranium, and uranium obviously being radioactive.
So Greenland has kind of gone back and forth on a ban on mining uranium, which by extension impacts whether you can get those rare earths out of the ground.
So those policy changes can make it quite complicated.
It's much more complicated than oil in Venezuela, is the short answer.
And the reason is this.
Venezuela, we've been taking oil out of the ground for a very long time.
There are American mining companies that know and extract oil in Venezuela.
In Greenland, you're talking about a very nascent industry.
You're talking about an industry that has really never been developed.
We mine zero rare earths right now.
And for some context, globally, the average from the time that I identify a mineral deposit to the time that I'm extracting it is 18 years.
Just for context here in the United States, it's actually 29 years.
So mining is not an industry that I can go in tomorrow and have a shovel-ready project three to six months from now.
So Venezuela has the benefit of the oil being a very well-developed industry compared to mining being very nascent in Greenland.
I don't think it is a good way to go to Greenland.
You know, what we really want to see, look, Greenland, number one, wants to develop its mining sector.
It's very open with that.
I was on a panel in London with the advisor to the mining minister of Greenland.
We spoke very openly about wanting to develop those resources, but to do it in a way that is mutually beneficial, both to investors, but to the people of Greenland.
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