Rare earths hopeful in eye of Greenland political storm

Energy Transition Minerals says Greenland's government effectively banned their rare earths project. (HANDOUT/JAMIE KIDSTON)

An Australian mining company with a stalled rare earths project in Greenland warns the territory risks damaging its reputation with foreign investors the longer a legal dispute drags on.

Greenlanders go to the polls on March 11 in a web of geopolitical tensions, including a Western desire to break China's rare earths monopoly and new US tariffs on several nations and imports of steel and aluminium.