Cryolite: Greenland's forgotten icy mineral

Cryolite: Greenland's forgotten icy mineral

Once vital to science, aluminum, and war, the world's only natural cryolite source now sits abandoned on the frozen Arctic coast. Carved into the granite shores of southwest Greenland, a now-silent pit once supplied the world's only commercial source of a mineral that advanced chemistry and revolutionized aluminum production – and would later shape the outcome of both World Wars. First i...