Abstract

The expanding exploratory endeavors within the Greenland mineral industry, and in specific, the proposed uncommon soil component (REE) mining projects, requires an pressing got to produce information on pattern REE concentrations and their potential natural impacts. In this, we have examined REE concentrations in anatropous Ice char (Salvelinus alpinus) and shorthorn sculpins (Myoxocephalus scorpius) from uncontaminated locales in Northwest Greenland, beside the connections between the component concentrations in gills and liver, and gill histology and serum biochemical parameters. Concentrations of arsenic, silver, cadmium, cerium, chromium, copper, dysprosium, mercury, lanthanum, neodymium, lead, selenium, yttrium, and zinc in gills, liver and muscle are displayed. No critical factual relationships were watched between component concentrations in numerous organs and gill histology or serum biochemical parameters. Be that as it may, we watched positive connections between age and histopathology, emphasizing the significance of counting age as a co-variable in histological considers of angle. In spite of no element-induced impacts were watched, this consider is considered an imperative pattern ponder, which can be utilized as a reference for the evaluation of impacts of potential future REE mine locales in Greenland.