Cryolite mine helped pay for Greenland's public expenses

The cryolite mine financed a large part of the Greenlandic public sector. Jyllands-Posten reported this on Saturday based on accounting figures from the 1920s and 1930s. The news has triggered a...

Accounting figures show that taxes on cryolite at one time paid 38 percent of Greenland's public spending.

New revelations show that some of the money from the cryolite mine in Ivittuut was paid back to Greenland. But exactly how much is uncertain.