Greenland Signs Lucrative Minerals Deal with Europe in Blow to Trump [View all]
Newsweek
Published May 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM EDT
By Brendan Cole
Greenland has allowed a Danish-French consortium to mine a rock which is key to the production of aluminum. The permit granted to Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM) to extract anorthosite follows interest in the Arctic territory from U.S. President Donald Trump in acquiring the autonomous island which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
GAM, which is backed by French company Jean Boulle Group and real estate investment firms bodies from Denmark and Greenland, was granted a 30-year permit, Reuters reported.
Jesper Willaing Zeuthen, associate professor at Aalborg University in Denmark, told Newsweek on Thursday that Trump's interest in resources from Greenland is likely to focus more on long-term investment objects, and securing the minerals in the future but not the immediate development of mines. Zeuthen said that Greenlandic legislation makes this approach hard, since mining licenses are temporary and require costly activities on the sites to uphold them.
Had Greenlandic territory been governed according to U.S. legislation, investors could simply buy the land including sub-territory rights and wait for the ice to melt, Zeuthen said, "but since land in Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic state, Greenland is far from this situation."
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