Greenland Government Approves Rare Earths License Transfer to Greenland Mines

Regulatory approval satisfies a key closing condition for the acquisition of the Sarfartoq Nd-Pr Rare Earths Project

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via IBN — Greenland Mines Ltd (Nasdaq: GRML) (“Greenland Mines” or the “Company”) today announced that the Government of Greenland, through the Ministry of Business and Mineral Resources (Naalakkersuisut), has formally approved the indirect transfer of Mineral Exploration License MEL 2020-32 covering the Sarfartoq Carbonatite Complex from Neo Performance Materials Inc. to Greenland Mines Ltd.

The approval, granted under Section 69(1) of the Greenland Mineral Activities Act, satisfies one of the key regulatory closing conditions for the Company’s previously announced acquisition of the Sarfartoq Neodymium-Praseodymium (“Nd-Pr”) Rare Earths Project.

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“This approval from the Government of Greenland is a fundamental milestone for our Company and for the future of Sarfartoq,” said Dr. Bo Møller Stensgaard, President of Greenland Mines Ltd. “It reflects the strength of our relationships in Greenland and the confidence the Government places in our team to advance this project responsibly. Sarfartoq is one of the most important undeveloped neodymium-praseodymium resources in the Western world. This is a foundational step in building a genuine, Western-aligned rare earth supply chain from Greenland.”

Rare earth elements, and neodymium and praseodymium in particular, are the essential building blocks of the permanent magnets used in electric vehicles, offshore wind turbines, robotics, and defense systems.

Global magnet-grade Nd-Pr supply remains heavily concentrated outside the Western hemisphere, and recent export restrictions have sharpened the urgency for the United States, Europe, and other allied nations to secure independent, non-China-dependent sources of these materials. Sarfartoq is strategically positioned to help answer that need: a carbonatite-hosted deposit with an exceptional Nd-Pr concentration of 25% to 40% of total rare earth oxides at its core ST1 zone – among the highest ratios reported globally – combined with sheltered deep-fjord tidewater access and adjacent hydroelectric potential that support a genuinely favorable development pathway.

Sarfartoq is also unusual among rare earth exploration assets in its maturity.

The project carries a historic NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate and a Preliminary Economic Assessment, is supported by more than 15 years of exploration work and over 23,000 meters of drilling, extensive metallurgical test work, and environmental baseline studies already underway, and comes with an existing 20-person camp and two drill rigs ready for immediate mobilization. Few rare earth exploration projects globally combine this level of technical maturity with this scale of Nd-Pr enrichment and this degree of logistical readiness.