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Greenland restores uranium ban — likely halting a controversial rare earths mine

Greenland Minerals stopped trading after an Inatsisartut vote that would preclude its combined rare earths and uranium project at Kuannersuit.

By Kevin McGwin November 10, 2021
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Greenland’s legislature has reinstated its near-complete ban on uranium mining — and in so doing has made it all but impossible for the mining project that was the main beneficiary of its 2013 repeal to win approval.

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