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Greenland Minerals and Energy (ASX: GGG) has taken inspiration from the Danish geoscientist Henning Sørensen and chemical engineer Emil Sørensen in naming the recently discovered Zone 2 rare earth-uranium deposit at Kvanefjeld the Sørensen Deposit.

Henning Sørensen commenced working on the Ilimaussaq alkaline complex in 1946, and has since
returned over 20 times. He is considered by many as laying the technical foundation upon which known mineral resources and their characteristics have been established.

Highlighting the sheer scale of the Kvanefjeld depost, the Sørensen Deposit and Zone 3 - the combined global metal inventory at the project is 575 million pounds of uranium, 10.3 million tonnes of TREO, and 2.24 million tonnes of zinc.

The collective resources of the northern Ilimaussaq Complex represent one of the largest known resources of rare earth elements and uranium globally.

For these reasons, Greenland Minerals sees it as only appropriate to commemorate Henning's contributions by naming the most significant of these new resources in his honour.

Henning also requested that he share the honour with his long-standing colleague Emil Sørensen (1927 to 2007).

Emil was a chemical engineer who represented Risø (the Danish atomic energy commission),
and managed many of the historic research programs to evaluate the appropriate methods to treat the uranium-rich ores from Kvanefjeld.

Henning Sørensen back story

Initially Henning Sørensen's work focussed on the unusual mineralogy within the complex, but this focus soon shifted to the economic importance of its mineral resources. From 1964 to 1977 he directed many of the work programs that set out to evaluate the economic potential of the Ilimaussaq Complex.

This period culminated with a comprehensive report on the geology, reserves and beneficiation of the Kvanefjeld deposit.