GREENLAND MINING & MINERALS
NORTH AMERICAN NICKEL
The Maniitsoq nickelcopper-PGE property in Greenland hosts numerous high-grade nickel-copper sulphide occurrences and initially was the largest exploration property ever granted in Greenland . Drilling has identified very high grade deposits . The drill programme will continue throughout 2015 . In April 2015 the company announced an agreement with Minelco AS , a subsidiary of Swedish iron producer LKAB Minerals that will allow it to proceed with the acquisition of the Seqi Port on the southwest coast of Greenland .
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rare earths , he points out . “ The Motzfeldt deposit , also in the south , contains significant quantities of niobium and tantalum . Both are critical minerals for world industry , but these deposits do contain uranium so the lifting of the ban will positively help them as well .” And there ’ s a high grade niobium deposit at Sarfartoq near the international airport at Kangerlussuaq in west Greenland . This deposit , which also contains rare earths , has been stalled since its discovery in the 1980s by the presence of uranium but could now be developed he says .
Conversely , uranium is not the only radioactive
94 May 2015