Ivittuut

Ivittuut
The cryolite mine in Ivittuut in 1940
Ivittuut Location within Greenland
Coordinates: 61°12′30″N 48°10′10″W / 61.20833°N 48.16944°W / 61.20833; -48.16944
State	Kingdom of Denmark
Constituent country	Greenland
Municipality	Sermersooq
Abandoned	1980s
Time zone	UTC-03

Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût) (Kalaallisut: "Grassy Place"^[1]) is an abandoned mining town near Cape Desolation in southwestern Greenland, in the modern Sermersooq municipality on the ruins of the former Norse Middle Settlement.

Ivittuut is one of the few places in the world so far discovered to have naturally occurring cryolite (Na₃AlF₆, sodium aluminum fluoride), an important agent in modern aluminum extraction.