In copenhagen
Kuannersuit, a mountain in southern Greenland, stirs up greed and sows discord because of the great riches of its bowels containing the world's second-largest reserves of rare earths, after China, and uranium.
It is the big stake of the early elections to the local Parliament which take place Tuesday in this Danish territory of the Arctic which obtained in 2009 a statute of extended autonomy, making it master of its natural resources.
A poll caused a year in advance by the breakup in February of the tripartite coalition in power led by the historic Siumut (social-democratic) party undermined by internal dissensions and by its sudden procrastination on the issue of a major mining project in Kvanefjeld (Danish name for Kuannersuit) which he had defended until then.
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This project, prepared for more than ten years by an Australian company, Greenland Minerals, (of which 12.5% of the capital is held by the Chinese Shenghe Resources), provides
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