Otmane El Rhazi : Mining, independence at stake as Greenland goes to the polls

Otmane El Rhazi from Mining Weekly | Ferrous Metals Home.



NUUK/COPENHAGEN – Greenlanders go to the polls on Friday with hopes for a mineral-rich independence from Denmark foundering on the reality of a tiny, shrinking economy. The fall of premier Aleqa Hammond last month in an expense scandal has muted the nationalist rhetoric that promised independence based on wealth from some of the largest mineral deposits on earth.