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Qaqqaarsuk deposit

Maniitsoq, Qeqqata

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ28649131 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Qaqqaarsuk deposit is a large niobium mine located in Qeqqata in southern Greenland. Qaqqaarsuk represents one of the largest niobium reserves in Greenland having estimated reserves of 3.5 million tonnes of ore grading 0.5% niobium.

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This entry incorporates text from “Qaqqaarsuk deposit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.