The dispute over Greenland is less about security than about resources: rare earths and critical metals are becoming the key to economic strength and technological sovereignty — and a central investment theme for the coming decades, writes Pieter Busscher of Robeco in his contribution to finews.com.

President Trump has made access to Greenland’s vast reserves of critical minerals a focus of ongoing negotiations. But experts say the U.S. is underestimating the difficulties of mining in a rapidly changing Arctic region that is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth.

Nivi Rosing has made the leap from an Ottawa post-secondary student to playing a major role as a Greenland parliamentarian trying to fend off U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to take over her isl...

President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about

President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about

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The US president backed down from his threats to seize Greenland last month.

President Trump has made access to Greenland’s vast reserves of critical minerals a focus of ongoing negotiations. But experts say the U.S. is underestimating the difficulties of mining in a rapidly changing Arctic region that is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about possibly seizing the autonomous territory. His threats of a hostile takeover have eased, but amid the focus on national security issues, access to critical minerals is now a key component in Trump’s “framework of a future deal.” Such a deal reportedly would open investment opportunities to U.S. mining companies — while restricting non-NATO countries from obtaining mining rights — and give the U.S. access to more valuable rare earth minerals, a global resource now nearly monopolized by China. But experts warn that the reality of finding, extracting, and transporting precious and rare earth minerals to refineries and markets is far more complicated, and environmentally fraught, than the Trump administration may have anticipated. “I’m skeptical, borderline cynical, that [the framework is] going to make any difference,” said Michael Jardine, managing director of Skylark Minerals. The...

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The move comes after Donald Trump stepped back on his insistence that the US must control Greenland to ensure national security. Greenland has warned the US still wants to control the strategic Arctic...

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