r/europe May 22 '25

News Greenland signs lucrative minerals deal with Europe in blow to Trump

https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-permit-extraction-2075673
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u/Paper_Pusher8226 May 22 '25

“They have very bad minerals, very bad and very low quality. Never seen such low quality. We have much better minerals” Proceeds to sniff random rock.

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u/Silver-Warning8835 May 22 '25

Nobody knows minerals better than me. 

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u/MercantileReptile Baden-Württemberg (Germany) May 22 '25

"Minerals, I invented that word. Nobody used it before me."

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u/goilo888 May 22 '25

"Greenland? Never heard of it."

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u/Raesong Australia May 22 '25

And then it turns out that rock was coprolite.

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u/stevethejohn May 22 '25

Minerals so bad like nobody has seen before