President Trump claims that the acquisition of Greenland is the key to the US economic safety, so he has seen the island as a potential advantage for metal and minerals. It is adjacent to.
Among them, his financial company, Cantor Fitzgerald, has an investment held in a company called CRITICAL METALS CORP. There is Howard Lutnick. According to company executives, important metals will start a mining process in 2026.
Lutonic, who is scheduled to confirm and confirming the Senate on Wednesday, will resign as the highest executive of Cantor Fitzgerald, a private company. According to his government ethics agreement, it will be sold within 90 days after his confirmation, and during that period he will not participate in issues that have a “direct and predictable effect” in the company unless he has received it. 。 Abandoned the abandonment he forgiven.
According to Trump, Lutonic will supervise all tariffs and trade policies as the head of the Ministry of Commerce, which promotes the interests of US companies overseas. If the president's efforts to increase the role of the island are successful, it will include Greenland.
It is still unknown whether Lutonic will completely refuse himself from Greenland -related policy issues. Neither he nor the White House responded to the comment request.
The influence of the United States to Denmark's autonomous territory, Greenland, may benefit mining workers and enrich important metal investors, resulting in Rutonic in Cantofitzgerald. His former business partner has ran for over 30 years.
Important metals have been promoting funding for US government projects since last fall, but according to the highest executive officer Tony Sage, the demands will be shelved until the new administration arrives in Washington. I was told. Sage said he thought that Lutonic and his company could have a possibility of conducting the U.S. government to discuss future investment.
“They are possible,” said Sage, “It's already helpful to have an investor.”
Lutonic is one of the supporters of Trump, who has a connection with investment in Greenland and may be in a position to form an idea of the President's theme.
The circle includes Silicon Valley investor Mark and Leisen, high -tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, and Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos. As an individual or through the company, all three donated Trump's re -election efforts or his first committee. Through a venture capital company, all three are investors of Kobold Metals, a private company based in Berkeley, California, and explored Greenland minerals and metals.
An Andreessen's venture capital company spokeswoman refused to comment. Altman and Bezos's spokesman did not respond to the comment request.
Kobold Metals spokesman has refused to say that a company that investigated disco off the west coast off the west coast of Greenland in 2022 would be likely to do business in the future.
Greenland glaciers, frozen weather, lack of roads and other infrastructure have long become difficult environments for investment. Some mining executives and investors believe that enhancement of arrangements with the United States can benefit US national security and create economic opportunities for both sides.
“Regardless of how it ends, whether it is just a cooperative relationship, whether we provide defense or provide something to Greenland, it will be Winwin for the United States and Greenland. I think the York Town Partners company has the control of the mining project there.
The idea of buying Greenland has been a hobby for Trump for many years. According to Peter Baker and Susan Grasser books, he assembled it as an opportunity to expand the global footprint in the United States during his first term, and exchanged US territory Puerto Rico with Greenland in 2019. Even the possibility of doing it came out. partition. However, his hope is that his hope is that the opposition from Denmark, some of the US allies that supervise Greenland, and some of Trump's advisor to divide this idea as a split and strange thing. Then, that hope became sick.
Under the former President Joseph R. Videen Jr., the United States has continued to strengthen his involvement in Greenland, albeit quieter. Last year, officials of the State Department traveled to the island to discuss natural resources, and US export transportation banks were interested in raising funds for the Graphite Mining Project operated by a British company. Considering that the mining executives are essential components that are essential for electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels, we hope that the promotion of Biden's clean energy can benefit the efforts of rare earth mining. He said he was.
The mining executives remember that weakening China's dominance in the mining of rare soil was also a part of the microclim of the Biden administration. “They have made a very clear thing that the material wants to go to the United States,” Greg Barnes said. Last summer, a company where Cantofitzgerald is invested. It is almost certain that the concerns about China's involvement will be even greater under Trump.
Greenland had little or at all during Trump's 2024 campaign. However, on December 22, he announced that he had chosen Ken Hawary on a social media site, and Trump called the “ownership and management” of the island “absolute need”. 。 Subsequent posts and comments explained that Greenland was important for US national security.
Denmark has so far resist sales ideas. However, efforts to find supporters in Washington have been established so far. Meanwhile, Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has undergone short profits around Greenland this month. Elder Trump refused to eliminate the idea of taking Greenland with power.
In an interview, Greenland's mining executives and investors said that Trump has not banked banks to banks on specific results for promoting the island. However, most of them said that the level of interest in the Atlantic Ocean was upset, and the resources that could be brought out to Greenland's mining opportunities were positive.
According to the Federal record, Raydel, an investor in York Town Partner, said: He said that his donation was motivated by the desire for the United States to do well, not the expectation of mining in Greenland.
Kitty Bennett Research that contributed.
