Why would any sane investor strongly desire to purchase a seemingly worthless, barren, frigid and ice-covered bit of crappy real estate like Greenland ?
Simple, Watson… if you have access to the largest intelligence community on earth, or else have a laptop and can do a rudimentary search. Or even with no laptop if you have an active imagination and a local library – consider a mashup of “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” and “Gingerbread Man”… Last year the following story did not arouse a lot of interest since the details were sparse … https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-massive-meteorite-crater-has-been-hiding-under-greenlands-ice But looking closer, a few details emerged and it becomes clear that fragments of the impact were analyzed, the meteorite was gigantic, and: “Analyzing those fragments, they found unusually high concentrations of nickel, cobalt, chromium, and gold...” The value ? … think Sudbury basin with gold plating ...