The Arctic territory has issued a 30-year mining permit to a Danish-French consortium.

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 Donald Trump in acquiring the island.

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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorthosite

    The primary economic value of anorthosite bodies is the titanium-bearing oxide ilmenite. However, some Proterozoic anorthosite bodies have large amounts of labradorite, which is quarried for its value as both a gemstone and a building material. Archean anorthosites, because they are aluminium-rich, have large amounts of aluminium substituting for silicon; a few of these bodies are mined as ores of aluminium

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        19 hours ago

        Aluminium is found on Earth primarily in rocks in the crust, where it is the third-most abundant element, after oxygen and silicon, rather than in the mantle, and virtually never as the free metal. It is obtained industrially by mining bauxite, a sedimentary rock rich in aluminium minerals.

        But these guys are getting it from anorthosite, which is an interesting variation of industrial trends.

        • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Oh, you responded to the comment saying it’s aluminium, not aluminum, so I thought you were referring to that.