GREENLAND ELECTION COULD MARK START OF ISLAND’S COMMERCIAL RARE EARTH DEVELOPMENT
February 3rd, 2013
THE NEXT 12 months will be crucial in the positioning of Greenland as a major source of rare earth metals (REM). A general election on March 12, could give a pro-independence, pro-mining party a renewed mandate in the Danish island’s autonomous government. The latest poll, conducted on February 21 by Greenland’s HS Analyse, gave the pro-independence ruling Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) 43.4%, ahead of its closest rival Siumut with 36%.The vote follows a recently parliamentary debate over removing the ban on Greenland exporting uranium mining: with many Greenlandic ...
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