Securing Strategic Supply Chains
Greenland’s mineral potential has become a focal point for supply-chain security, industrial policy, and materials planning.
This hub is designed as a neutral reference gateway: definitions, scope, and source-led pointers—focused on constraints and enabling conditions.
Editorial policy
- Source hierarchy: government publications, regulators, major wire services, and technical reports are preferred.
- No promotion: unsupported claims and unverifiable numbers are excluded or labeled as “reported”.
- Change discipline: updates are dated; prior statements remain auditable.
Download: Acquisition Teaser (PDF, v1.1)
Full dossier available on request.
Critical Materials
“Minerals” become “materials” through processing, logistics, offtake structures, and regulatory constraints.
This section focuses on midstream relevance and supply-chain logic where public sources allow.
The 17 Rare Earth Elements (REE)
In geology and supply-chain reporting, “rare earth elements” refers to a standard set of 17 metals:
the 15 lanthanoids (La–Lu) plus scandium (Sc) and yttrium (Y).
Greenland publications typically report REE distributions using this standard set; economic mixes differ by deposit.
Standard REE list (IUPAC names)
- Scandium (Sc) — 21
- Yttrium (Y) — 39
- Lanthanum (La) — 57
- Cerium (Ce) — 58
- Praseodymium (Pr) — 59
- Neodymium (Nd) — 60
- Promethium (Pm) — 61
- Samarium (Sm) — 62
- Europium (Eu) — 63
- Gadolinium (Gd) — 64
- Terbium (Tb) — 65
- Dysprosium (Dy) — 66
- Holmium (Ho) — 67
- Erbium (Er) — 68
- Thulium (Tm) — 69
- Ytterbium (Yb) — 70
- Lutetium (Lu) — 71
Note: Promethium (Pm) is part of the standard REE list; it has no stable isotopes and occurs only in extremely small natural concentrations.
Climate & Access
Arctic access windows, logistics, and climate-linked constraints often determine timelines and capital costs.
This section summarizes access dynamics with a risk-first framing.