Greenland’s mineral resources hold massive economic potential, but accessing them isn’t easy President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight.

Saudi Arabia wants to rapidly grow its mineral sector, at a time when rare earths are at the heart of geopolitics.

The South American country, which has huge reserves of graphite, niobium and nickel, maintains contacts with Washington and Brussels and wants to go beyond extraction

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to batteries and catalysts for chemical reactions. Since the 1980s, a race has been on between the United States and China for dominance of the rare earth element market—and the United States is losing.

One of the motives behind President Donald Trump’s obsession with the United States owning Greenland is the territory’s rich holdings of rare-earth minerals.

A mid-January proclamation from President Trump lists cobalt, nickel and rare earth elements as commodities where “import adjustments” could be sought.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth industry has spent years circling the same problem. Minerals move through too many borders, too many processors, and too many chemical transformations to maintain a trustworthy origin story.

Launch of University of Birmingham facility for separating and recycling rare earth magnets boosts UK’s leading position in rare earth recycling