Greenland Mines engages GTK Mintec for its Skaergaard program

Greenland Mines Ltd announces that it has entered into a framework agreement with GTK Mintec, the mineral processing and circular‑economy pilot plant of the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK). 

 The agreement is to carry out an extensive mineralogical, metallurgical, processing and environmental / hydro‑geochemical investigation program for the Company's Skaergaard Gold, Palladium, Platinum and Critical Metals Project in East Greenland.

Bo Møller Stensgaard, Ph.D., Greenland Mines Ltd. President, commented, "Bringing GTK Mintec into the Skaergaard story is a major step forward for our project. They are, in our view, one of the strongest mineralogical and metallurgical pilot‑testing set‑ups in Europe – combining top‑tier researchers, a unique industrial‑scale pilot plant and a dedicated tailings and process‑water research platform, all under the umbrella of the Geological Survey of Finland.

"Skaergaard is a complex, fine‑grained, multi‑metal layered intrusion. To unlock its full potential in gold, palladium, platinum and the bulk metals like iron, titanium and vanadium, we need a partner that can go deep into the mineralogy, petrology and process design, and is willing to explore both conventional and cutting‑edge low‑emission processing routes. GTK Mintec has repeatedly demonstrated exactly that approach, not only in Finland but also in a wide range of EU‑funded and international projects with commercial mining companies.

"With GTK Mintec, our technical team and SLR Consulting working together, we are putting in place a world‑class platform to design and pilot‑test a flowsheet that aims to recover as much value as possible from Skaergaard – from the precious metals through to potential Fe‑Ti‑V and other critical‑metal products – while at the same time building a strong understanding of tailings, process water and environmental performance from day one. For both institutional and retail investors, this should underline that Skaergaard is on a clear path towards becoming a technically robust, environmentally responsible and strategically relevant operation and a project that is increasingly positioned to attract strategic and financing partners as we advance toward the next set of development decisions," concluded Dr. Stensgaard.

One of the world's largest undeveloped palladium‑gold‑platinum resources

GTK Mintec, located in Outokumpu, Finland, combines state‑of‑the‑art mineral research laboratories with an industrial‑scale pilot plant, a dedicated tailings and extractive‑waste test area, and process‑water research facilities, providing an end‑to‑end platform from ore to tailings and reuse.

Skaergaard is a large, layered mafic intrusion hosting one of the world's largest undeveloped palladium‑gold‑platinum resources, with additional potential for iron, titanium, vanadium, gallium and other critical metals in vanadium‑bearing titanomagnetite and related phases. The deposit is fine‑grained and strongly layered, requiring a sophisticated combination of petrological understanding, mineralogical detail and modern processing technology to unlock its full value.

GTK Mintec's philosophy of maximizing recovery from both primary ores and side streams, and its focus on "extracting everything possible" from a deposit through integrated mineralogical, beneficiation and tailings work, aligns closely with Greenland Mines' bulk‑approach to Skaergaard and its goal of designing a flowsheet that can capture value from both precious‑metal and bulk‑metal streams.

The GTK Mintec program also fits directly into Greenland Mines' broader North Atlantic Processing Site Strategy, under which Skaergaard ore would be mined and pre‑processed in East Greenland and then shipped a short distance to Iceland for low‑carbon downstream processing.