This article explores the emergence of a Greenlandic mineral resource landscape against the background of the current establishment of an industrial ruby mine in Greenland. Anthropological fieldwork combined with a close reading of scientific reports, articles, and geological assessments about Greenlandic gemstones show a recurrent feature, namely that Greenlandic minerals get scaled and valued in ambiguous ways. This ambiguity is telling of a type of Danish (post-)colonial activity, even if such geological mapping was and is motivated by a dream of welfare, development, and economic sustainability shared by Danish experts and Greenlandic politicians alike. An overall point is to argue that the very practice of describing mineral resources also configures their perceived value and posits a yardstick by which to measure their potential.

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一块格陵兰岛？制作适销对路的工匠宝石

本文探讨格陵兰目前在格陵兰建立工业红宝石矿的背景下，格陵兰矿产资源景观的出现。人类学实地工作结合对科学报告、文章和有关格陵兰宝石的地质评估的仔细阅读，显示出一个反复出现的特征，即格陵兰矿物以模糊的方式进行缩放和估价。这种模棱两可说明了一种丹麦（后）殖民活动，即使这种地质测绘曾经而且是出于丹麦专家和格陵兰政治家共同的福利、发展和经济可持续性的梦想。总的观点是认为描述矿产资源的实践也配置了它们的感知价值，并设定了衡量其潜力的标准。