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Show Ij.J J OEYOLITE 18 IMPOETED. I Mineral Used In Manufacture of Ohem- icals Comes Prom Greenland, a 1 J 1 Considerable quantttlos of the nilnornl cry- I ollto aro Imported from Greenland each year i fur use In tho manufacture of sodium salts. j The quantity of cryolite Imported during tho year 1905, according to a roport made bv ffl.H Edmund Otis Hovcy of tho United State's 1 Geological survey, was 1600 long tons, valued J at. $22,482 as against 059, valued at $13,708. 1 ji 1 in 100-1, and 7708 tons, vnluod at S102.679. jljj : in 1903. K V 1 In tho processes of manufnctnro calcium 15 lj fluoride results as a by-product, and is saved '( i lo bo sold for use as a flux In opou-hcarth t ill hlteX furnaoes In the same manner and witli m-.Jl iho same results as the natural oalcium fluor- H M ide, or fluorspar. Tho quantity of tho nrtl- j ( ficial fluorldo depends, ot course, upon tho fi '1 Munntlties of cryolite treated, and is said to jj bo usually from 8000 to 4000 short tons per |