Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and curses

A billion years in the past, as one tectonic plate ripped aside from one other, two chambers of magma have been sealed off beneath what would later turn into Greenland. As 1000’s of years handed, the magma cooled, every layer crystallising underneath rarefied circumstances. At present the Ilimaussaq intrusion is a big fold of rock beneath Gardar, in south-west Greenland. By a stroke of luck, it’s house to 30 of the world’s most desired uncooked supplies.