Lumina Sustainable Minerals delivers moon dust to simulation project

A small step for an international space agency. A giant leap for a Greenlandic mining company. Lumina Sustainable Minerals is key to the ambitious plans for a return to the Moon.

This year, as European astronauts begin training for extended lunar missions, they will use anorthosite from Lumina Sustainable Minerals to emulate the moon's surface. The European Space Agency (ESA) has acquired 20 tons for this purpose.

Lumina's "Greenlandic moon dust" has attracted interest from not only the European Space Agency (ESA) but also NASA and various academic institutions focused on space research, highlighting Lumina’s ongoing support for space exploration efforts.

"We are very excited by the opportunity to contribute to international space exploration. Despite the modest economic impact of the quantities supplied for training purposes, it highlights the quality and uniqueness of our resources, and the sustainable practices we uphold," says Bent Olsvig Jensen, managing director of Lumina Sustainable Minerals.

On its website, ESA remarks that the eco-friendly mining model practiced by Lumina Sustainable Minerals, which avoids chemical processes and ensures the safe return of waste to the environment, aligns with the sustainability goals of moon exploration initiatives led by ESA.