Take a look inside Greenland's only fully operational mine, where miners live half the year and brave Arctic conditions

Mining facilities at Lumina.

Mark Adam Miller

• Greenland features numerous mineral deposits, but mining there poses many challenges.
• Lumina, Greenland's sole fully operational mine, extracts anorthosite in tough Arctic conditions.
• Lumina's year-round operations serve as a blueprint for advancing Greenland's mining industry.

Greenland is believed to hold significant deposits of critical raw materials, including valuable rare-earth elements. Mining them, however, is another story.