Nepheline Syenite and Iron Ore Deposits in Greenland

Abstract

The chief geologist of the Cryolite Company (Copenhagen) describes known deposits, sketches the history of their exploration and remarks on economic possibilities, mineralogy, and situation of eudialyte deposits in the Julianehaab, Kangerdluarsuk Fjord region of West Greenland, and of the iron ore deposits in the Gronnedal region (Ivigtut Peninsula) southwest Greenland. Bibliography (20 items). Notice of cessation of prospecting iron ore at Gronnedal appeared in Arctic, May 1951, v.4,p.70.