QEQERTARSUATSIAAT FJORD, Greenland ¨C Among the glaciers and turquoise fjords of southwestern Greenland, a mining company is betting rock similar to the one the Apollo missions brought back from the moon can address some of Earth¡¯s climate change problems.
¡°This rock was created in the early days in the formation of our planet,¡± says geologist Anders Norby-Lie, who began exploring anorthosite at the remote mountain landscape in Greenland nine years ago.
More recently, it has excited mining companies and investors hoping to sell it as a relatively sustainable source of aluminum as well as an ingredient to make fibreglass.
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