General Discussion

...and rare earths – are known to exist, but as of 2011 not yet in commercially viable deposits, while Greenland's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum was working to promote Greenland as an attractive destination for prospectors.

Greenland's economy is hampered by lack of infrastructure with less than 100 miles of paved roads. However as of 2012, partly due to the retreating ice sheet due to climate change, Greenland was starting to emerge as a territory rich with untapped mining resources.
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As of 2025, Lumina was digging for anorthosite, and KoBold, financed by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and other billionaires for nickel.[30] Critical Metals Corporation has been operating a mine in southern Greenland, backed by Cantor Fitzgerald of which Howard Lutnick has been the firm’s chief executive prior to becoming commerce secretary in 2025.[30]

Between around 1966 and 1975, thousands of Greenlandic Inuit girls and women had intrauterine devices (IUDs) inserted to prevent pregnancy under the direction of the Danish government and by Danish doctors.[6] Half of the 9,000 women in Greenland who could have children were given IUDs in the first five years of the program;[7] some of the affected girls were as young as 12,[8] and in many cases, women (and in the case of girls, their parents) did not consent to the procedure.[9] For instance, Naja Lyberth was 13 or 14 years old, Elisibánguak' Jeremiasssen was 13,[10] and Arnannguaq Poulsen was 16 and staying in Denmark when she received hers.[11] All of the girls in Lyberth's class were told to have IUDs placed by a visiting doctor[12] and then taken to a hospital for them to be inserted.[13] The purpose of the campaign was to prevent unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, lower childcare costs, and control the birth rate in Greenland.[14] Thousands of girls and women ultimately had IUDs placed without their consent during the campaign.[13] As a result, the birth rate in Greenland was halved in just a few years.[8]