Europe’s largest deposit of rare-earth minerals sits directly in the path of an ancient reindeer migration route 124 miles above the Arctic Circle
via apnews.com
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High atop the Luossavaara Mountain in northern Sweden, Sami reindeer herder Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen mapped out a bleak future for himself and other Indigenous people whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years. An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land and altering ancient reindeer migration routes. But […]