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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 day ago

Greenland has rare earths, but they’re really hard to mine

www.theregister.com

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Greenland has rare earths, but they’re really hard to mine

www.theregister.com

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 day ago
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: You can't just grab 'em by the mine shafts - there aren't any
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    Almost everywhere has rare earth metals, they aren’t rare they are just diffuse. Most rocks you might pick up have some amounts of rare earths, but it would take a lot of them to get enough to do anything with.

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      The article focuses on the fact that there is a small unskilled population, so labor would have to be imported, there are no transportation networks that would have to be built, no infrastructure to house minors, and mining through the ICE sheet would be extremely expensive and require specialized machinery

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        They forgot to mention that there is no food because nothing grows there

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        minors

        miners

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          Whats the difference https://tenor.com/de/view/spongebob-squarepants-spongebob-nick-nickelodeon-patrick-gif-17195320

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          ¿Por qué no los dos?

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            19 hours ago

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        Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman) in Galaxy Quest saying, “Miners, not minors!”

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        Minors? No children can live in Greenland?

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          Correct haha, the locals never have sex

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