Ivittuut

This article is about the mining town. For the former U.S. Army post and Naval base, see Bluie West Seven. For the former Royal Danish Navy base, see Grønnedal.

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

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Ivittuut (formerly, Ivigtût; Greenlandic for "Grassy Place") 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.