Greenland has inaugurated its first national drill core archive, Qillikkanut Toqqorsivik, on Friday, February 13. The new archive will gather hundreds of thousands of meters of drill core in one place under controlled conditions.
The archive will preserve and collect knowledge about Greenland's subsoil, strengthen research and make it easier to implement commercial projects.
Naalakkersuisoq Naaja H. Nathanielsen (IA) also says that the archive is designed to grow in line with Greenland's mineral resources activity:
- The Naalakkersuisut hopes that the framework for Qillikkanut Toqqorsivik will one day become too small, so that we have to expand. The point of the archive is that it should reflect the activity in the mineral resources sector.
- The activity we see in the field must be reflected in our drill core archive, so that after each season we see an increase in the number of drill cores, says Naalakkersuisut for Industry, Minerals, Energy, Justice and Equality, Naaja H. Nathanielsen.
Each drill core holds unique traces of Greenland's geology and resources
Drill cores are cylindrical rock samples that are retrieved from the subsoil during, for example, mineral exploration.
Companies that carry out exploration are legally obligated to deliver the drill cores to the Greenland Self-Government when the permit expires or is returned.
Each drill core contains valuable information about Greenland's geological development, the history of the climate, and occurrences and exploitation opportunities for minerals, metals and other critical resources, informs Naalakkersuisut.
