Greenland chooses nature over lucre as it shafts uranium mining
It has also halted plans by an Australian firm to exploit one of the world’s largest deposits of rare earth minerals
10 November 2021 - 19:22
Greenland’s parliament has passed legislation that will ban uranium mining and cease development of the Kuannersuit mine, one of the biggest rare earth deposits in the world...
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