Business Chief Europe Magazine May 2015 | Page 96

MINISTRY OF MINERAL RESOURCES , GREENLAND

WHITE MOUNTAIN

Hudson Resources is a Canadian based mining company focused on the Naajat ( White Mountain ) anorthosite ( calcium feldspar ) project in Greenland . The White Mountain resource is unique in its size and purity . Processing is simple and no chemicals are involved . Hudson plans to start construction this year and start producing by the end of 2016 , targeting initially the e-glass market ( optic fibre ) for which anorthosite is a better and more economic option than kaolin .
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($ 724,000,000 ), and the project ’ s need for labour in carrying out the construction activities must exceed the suitable , available and accessible workforce in Greenland .
To the debate on the need to mine nuclear materials in the first place will be added a fear that the country will be flooded by Chinese and other low cost foreign workers . These fears are nowhere near as well grounded as people fear , Henrik Stendal believes . The revision of the bill tightens the regulation of minimum wages considerably . No legal basis for nonfixed minimum hourly wages pursuant to foreign collective bargaining agreements is now to be
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