Max Colchester

And it looks like the moon.

It's this huge frozen expanse.

It's nearly like sci-fi when you approach Nuke.

And this is a country which is slightly bigger than Mexico.

It is 80% ice.

It has a very tiny population of around 57,000 people who live mainly on the coast, the southwestern coast, because the rest is ice.

There's less than 100 miles of paved road in Greenland.

So this is a very, like...

sparsely populated and for a large part inhospitable place.

It's a very small one.

The workforce is 29,000 people, which is the size of a tiny town.

Its biggest export is shrimp, halibut and cod.

98% of Greenlandic exports are fish or fishing produce.

It's just very small.

and efforts to try and build out mines in Greenland haven't really come to much because, you know, you've got to go into the middle of some icy tundra, dig a hole, build a road to it, build housing for your workers, build a port, maybe build a runway.

It's incredibly expensive and then it's such bad weather for a chunk of the year you can't even access it.

So it's not a place that you just turn up and it's waiting to go.

Exactly.

When you get there, you realize that although it's been painted as this potential El Dorado for minerals and whatnot, when you get there, you realize people basically live off fishing and Danish subsidies.

And it's not a gold mine in that sense.