The Guardian/AFP: Greenland goes to the polls in rare earth mining election
Two main parties are divided over a giant project that would dig for uranium and other minerals
Greenland went into legislative elections on Tuesday, after a campaign focused on a disputed mining project in the autonomous Danish territory as the Arctic island confronts first-hand the effects of global heating.
Greenland’s two main parties are divided on whether to authorise a controversial giant rare earth and uranium mining project, which is currently the subject of public hearings.
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More News On Today's Legislative Election In Greenland
Greenland voters to decide fate of the last great untapped deposit of rare earth metals -- National Post
3 comments:
You can get vanadium as a side product of phosphate mining depending o how you process it.
Consider few things.
1) we want rare earth metals
2) It cleans up the waste steam of phosphate production. It would make phosphate production more expensive.
"Some parts of the Phosphoria Formation, which is mined for phosphate in the western US, contain potentially economic concentrations of vanadium. In 2008, Rocky Mountain Resources announced that they had defined 6.7 million tons of ore containing 0.88 percent V2O5, at its Paris Hills prospect. The vanadium occurred in an 11-foot-thick (3.4 m) bed in the Meade Peak shale member of the Phosphoria, immediately below a 15-foot (4.6 m) bed of ore-grade phosphate rock.[21] The property has since been sold to Stonegate Agricom, and as of mid-2016 was still in permitting and development status.[22]
As of 2015, no vanadium was being recovered from US phosphate operations"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate_mining_in_the_United_States
3) There would be less concern of waste pons in Florida and elsewhere.
Maybe, just maybe if the greenies are so concerned about global warming they could give phosphate mines a tax break to encourage production of secondary products. Maybe I will be sorry, when the greenies turn it into another Solyndra.
Because really green energy is really about greenbacks.
10:28 PM, Your last sentence says it all, methinks.
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