Greenland with huge deposits: “The island with an area of almost half of the EU located in the Arctic is over 80 percent covered with ice sheet, and itself ice -free area It is 27 percent larger than the territory of Poland – the analysts of the Polish Economic Institute write. Meanwhile, in the part of Greenland, ice -free are Huge deposits of rare earth elements.
30 percent global resources: The elements of rare lands in Greenland account for about 30 percent. world resources and are comparable to Fold in China. Experts from the Polish Economic Institute (PI) emphasize that it is A huge opportunity for the European Union to become independent of the Middle Kingdom in this respect.
China with power: China is currently responsible for 60 percent. extracting metals of rare lands “and have a quasi -monopolistic position in their processing (90 percent), as in the case of lithium (60 %), graphite (95 percent) or cobalt (70 percent)” – read . Analysts remind you that China began to use the export of selected raw materials as pressure tool. In 2023, Beijing announced export restrictions for the export of gall and German and graphite. They also introduced an embargo for the export of technologies used to processing of rare elements.
Critical raw materials: In Greenland there are, among others significant deposits of such critical raw materials like titanium (12.1 thousand tons), phosphorus (11.5 thousand tons) and “noticeable amounts niobu, tantal, vanadium, graphite and platinum“. Experts add that these elements are also found on the so -called EU and Poland strategic raw materials. Market amounted to EUR 123.6 million. The main suppliers were China (39 percent), Malaysia (33 percent) and Russia (22 percent) ” – says Pie.
Donald Trump and Greenland: It turns out that Greenlandic deposits of rare earths They are 1974 times greater than their annual imports to the EU. Meanwhile, which will soon take the office of the US president. He believes that the island is “the key to increasing the United States’ raw material” and America should take control of it.
See also: About Greenland and Donald Trump’s plans, read in the text .
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