Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd specializes in mining of Rare Earth Elements, uranium and zinc. Basically,
Rare Earth Elements are of 17
types that include:
- Yttrium: It is used in yttrium vanadate as host for europium in TV red phosphor
- Lanthanum: It is used camera lenses, hydrogen battery-electrodes, storage, flint
- Scandium: It is used additive in Mercury-vapor lamps
- Cerium: It is used polishing powder, Chemical oxidizing agent, ferrocerium flints for lighters, yellow colors in glass and ceramics.
- Dysprosium : It is used Lasers, Magnets
- Neodymium: It is used violet colors in glass and ceramics, lasers, rare-earth magnets.
- Praseodymium: It is used colorant in enamels and glasses, welding goggles, rare-earth magnets, lasers.
- Samarium: It is used neutron capture, lasers, rare-earth magnets.
- Promethium: It is used Nuclear batteries
- Dysprosium: It is used lasers, Rare-earth magnets
- Gadolinium: It is used X-ray tubes, MRI contrast agent, Rare-earth magnets, lasers.
- Ytterbium: It is used chemical reducing agent, Infrared lasers
- Erbium: It is used vanadium steel, lasers
- Holmium: It is used Lasers,
- Europium: It is used Lasers, blue and red phosphors.
- Lutetium: It is used high refractive index glass, PET Scan detectors
- Thulium: It is used handy X-ray machines