The Mineral Resources of Greenland. 29 
The miners are a fine body of men physically, unmarried men who 
have been discharged from the Danish army being given preference. 
While they have had no previous experience with mining, the work 
to be done 13 not such as to require long apprenticeship. One hundred 
and twenty-five men are employed in summer, and half that number 
in winter, the men being engaged for a year and а half, arriving early 
in the spring and re- 
turning late the second 
fall. Some of the 
miners, through re- 
engagements, have 
been with the company 
twelve years. The ma- 
jority of the men were 
paid in 1914 three 
kroner (81 cents) per 
day, and found: in 
addition,they are given 
transport from and 
to Denmark and time 
enroute. In 1920 the 
wage was 8 kroner 
(са. $ 1.50) and the 
day an 8-hour one. 
The company has 
the eryolite concession 
for twenty-five years 
from date at the ex- 
piration of which pe- 
riod the property and 
improvements revert Fig. 15. »Handsorting cryolite at the Øresund plant«. 
to the colony. The After Grünwald. 
royalty varies with 
the quantity of cryolite shipped; it now averages about 120 Kroner 
(ca. $ 24.00) per cubic meter. 
Formerly the major portion (two-thirds) of the product was sold 
to the Pennsylvania Salt Company of Natrona, Pa., and the minor 
portion to the Øresunds Chemiske Fabriker of Copenhagen, but at 
present, the relative proportions are reversed. The latter company 
refines a part of the crude cryolite and sells the product to consumers, 
and also manufactures it into various chemical products. It is stated 
that it lets nothing go to waste, sending the siderite to iron furnaces 
and the galena and chalcopyrite to smelters, even the small gold content 
