 Company and government public hearings were held in August 2013.In March 2014, the company was granted an exclusive 30-year exploitation (mining) license for Aappaluttoq.The company was accused of discouraging the villagers from Qeqertarsuatsiaat and elsewhere in Greenland from coming into the area of their active exploration to remove rubies, even though it was argued that the Greenlanders had the right of mineral access under "Section 32" of the country's Mineral Resources Act administered by the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (www.bmp.gl).