page_title: Cryolite
hierarchical_section_title: Cryolite
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kryolith - topotype - Ehemalige Sammlung der Fakultät für Pharmazie von Paris Fundort: Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut, Arsuk Firth, Arsuk, Kitaa Province, Grönland Größe: 8.8 x 6.7 x 5 cm English: Cryolite – topotype -Former collection of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Paris Locality: Ivigtut Cryolite deposit, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Firth, Arsuk, Kitaa (West Greenland) Province, Greenland Size: 8.8 x 6.7 x 5 cm Français&#160;: Cryolite – topotype - Ancienne collection de la Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris Localité: Gisement de cryolite d’Ivigtut, Ivittuut (Ivigtut), Arsuk Firth, Arsuk, Province de Kitaa, Groenland Size: 8.8 x 6.7 x 5 cm
context_page_description: Cryolite is an uncommon mineral identified with the once-large deposit at Ivittuut on the west coast of Greenland, depleted by 1987.
  Due to its rarity it is possibly the only mineral on Earth ever to be mined to commercial extinction.
context_section_description: Cryolite (Na₃AlF₆, sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is an uncommon mineral identified with the once-large deposit at Ivittuut on the west coast of Greenland, depleted by 1987.
  Due to its rarity it is possibly the only mineral on Earth ever to be mined to commercial extinction.
caption: Cryolite from Ivigtut Greenland
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