Note 153 — Chapter XXXIV · SIR ALLEN YOUNG AND THE PANDORA. AMUNDSEN AND THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE.
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Ivigtut, the cryolite mine, is about 16 miles up the Arsak fjord. Cryolite is a white mineral found on the gneiss of S.W. Greenland and nowhere else—a double hydro-fluorate of soda and alumina. In 1857 a licence was given to a company to work the mine to the amount of about 26 ship-loads yearly.