"Although the principles behind the research are directly...

"Although the principles behind the research are directly relevant to all Europe’s rare earth projects, the project will focus on one in particular: the Ivigtut deposit in Greenland, which formed 1.3 billion years ago as a cooling hydrothermal fluid moved through the Earth’s crust, precipitating new minerals rich in critical metals. Our recent paper in Geology (Sokół et al. 2021) reconstructed the chemical fingerprint of a very similar fluid which moved out of the Igdlerfigsalik (also spelled Illerfissalik) magma chamber 1.18 billion years ago, dissipating critical metals over a wide area. However, Ivigtut is the product of a fluid which precipitated minerals in a focussed region, rather than a broad area. Analysis of the geochemistry and mineralogy at Ivigtut allows us to fill in the gaps in our understanding at Igdlerfigsalik by constraining the geochemistry, temperature and mineral reactions that take place when such a fluid moves through, and interacts with, the Earth’s crust."

Such great academic interest and focus on EPM will surely attract a lots of attention especially the EU governments. This will be huge for EPM.