Lead Mine and Cryolite, in Arksul [sic] Ford, 1856. '... Arksuk [Arsuk] Fiord, with the miners' houses, smithy, the lead ore being wheeled over the ice to the Danish permission to a Danish explore and work them the monopoly of all mines and mineral wealth they should discover for a term of expedition was sent the charge of Mr. Tayler, working the vein of silver-lead Fiord is well known to mineralogists as being the only spot in the world in which the
Lead Mine and Cryolite, in Arksul [sic] Ford, 1856. '... Arksuk [Arsuk] Fiord, with the miners' houses, smithy, the lead ore being wheeled over the ice to the Danish permission to a Danish explore and work them the monopoly of all mines and mineral wealth they should discover for a term of expedition was sent the charge of Mr. Tayler, working the vein of silver-lead Fiord is well known to mineralogists as being the only spot in the world in which the mineral cryolite has been found. It is described as a white mineral, consisting of sodium aluminum and fluorine, and will probably be extensively used in the manufacture of the new and beautiful metal aluminium so soon as a practical method of obtaining this metal shall have been discovered'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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