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Sune Rasmussen

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105 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Yeah, there was one taxi waiting for us outside. Because the whole town can see when the helicopter arrives, so I think the local taxi driver just got in his car and went to pick us up.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Yeah, there was one taxi waiting for us outside. Because the whole town can see when the helicopter arrives, so I think the local taxi driver just got in his car and went to pick us up.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Nasak is like on the very southern tip of Greenland. It's on the sea and it's kind of placed at the bottom of a mountain plateau, which is this place called Kvænefjell. And the houses in town painted these bright colors, like bright red, bright green, bright blue, and dotted across the landscape, both sort of at the foot of the mountain. And some of the houses are

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Nasak is like on the very southern tip of Greenland. It's on the sea and it's kind of placed at the bottom of a mountain plateau, which is this place called Kvænefjell. And the houses in town painted these bright colors, like bright red, bright green, bright blue, and dotted across the landscape, both sort of at the foot of the mountain. And some of the houses are

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Nasak is like on the very southern tip of Greenland. It's on the sea and it's kind of placed at the bottom of a mountain plateau, which is this place called Kvænefjell. And the houses in town painted these bright colors, like bright red, bright green, bright blue, and dotted across the landscape, both sort of at the foot of the mountain. And some of the houses are

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

sort of dotted up along the ridge of the mountain. So it's very picturesque.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

sort of dotted up along the ridge of the mountain. So it's very picturesque.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

sort of dotted up along the ridge of the mountain. So it's very picturesque.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

The entire mountain passes was snowed over and covered in ice. And the roads were impassable. What the photographer and I did was we found two local Greenlanders who had snowmobiles and who were willing to take us into where the mine is. So we borrowed two, like, snowsuits, onesies, basically thick onesies from a local farmer. These onesies that reeked of sheep.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

The entire mountain passes was snowed over and covered in ice. And the roads were impassable. What the photographer and I did was we found two local Greenlanders who had snowmobiles and who were willing to take us into where the mine is. So we borrowed two, like, snowsuits, onesies, basically thick onesies from a local farmer. These onesies that reeked of sheep.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

The entire mountain passes was snowed over and covered in ice. And the roads were impassable. What the photographer and I did was we found two local Greenlanders who had snowmobiles and who were willing to take us into where the mine is. So we borrowed two, like, snowsuits, onesies, basically thick onesies from a local farmer. These onesies that reeked of sheep.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

And then got in the back of two snowmobiles and then went in through this pathless gorge into the mountain. I made it to sort of just below the mine entrance. But the whole thing was snowed over. So we got as close as we could. And we got closer than the company. The company itself couldn't get closer than about six or seven miles.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

And then got in the back of two snowmobiles and then went in through this pathless gorge into the mountain. I made it to sort of just below the mine entrance. But the whole thing was snowed over. So we got as close as we could. And we got closer than the company. The company itself couldn't get closer than about six or seven miles.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

And then got in the back of two snowmobiles and then went in through this pathless gorge into the mountain. I made it to sort of just below the mine entrance. But the whole thing was snowed over. So we got as close as we could. And we got closer than the company. The company itself couldn't get closer than about six or seven miles.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Well, I think the fact that this company had traveled from, the executives had traveled from Singapore, from Perth, Sydney in Australia, all the way to this small town in Greenland and still turned around, that to me spoke volumes about just how inaccessible Greenland is. And this is southern Greenland, remember.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Well, I think the fact that this company had traveled from, the executives had traveled from Singapore, from Perth, Sydney in Australia, all the way to this small town in Greenland and still turned around, that to me spoke volumes about just how inaccessible Greenland is. And this is southern Greenland, remember.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

Well, I think the fact that this company had traveled from, the executives had traveled from Singapore, from Perth, Sydney in Australia, all the way to this small town in Greenland and still turned around, that to me spoke volumes about just how inaccessible Greenland is. And this is southern Greenland, remember.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

This is the most accessible part of the country because this is the warmest part of the country.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

This is the most accessible part of the country because this is the warmest part of the country.

The Journal.
Greenland Has Tons of Minerals. So Where Are All the Miners?

This is the most accessible part of the country because this is the warmest part of the country.