Tags: Chemical Substance, Mineral.
Cryolite (Na3AlF6 sodium hexafluoroaluminate) is an uncommon mineral identified with the once large deposit at Ivigtût on the west coast of Greenland depleted by 1987.It was historically used as an ore of aluminium and later in the electrolytic processing of the aluminium-rich oxide ore bauxite (itself a combination of aluminium oxide minerals such as gibbsite boehmite and diaspore).
