I wrote a short thread on Bluesky a week or so ago about mineral deposits, since they seem to loom so large in Donald Trump’s thinking. The Times (London) has an article that responds to many of my checkpoints from that thread, so I’ll put them side by side here. My checkpoints in italics.

Having a resource in the ground means next to nothing.  Greenland is known to have two very large deposits of rare earth minerals on its southern tip – the Kvanefjeld complex and the Tanbreez deposit, which may be the second largest on earth, after the Bayan Obo deposit in China.

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