Native tungsten

Native tungsten is the mineral form of the metal tungsten, with the accepted name simply tungsten. In its pure metallic form, natural tungsten is very rarely encountered and quite exotic.[1][2][3]

References

  1. "Tungsten: Tungsten mineral information and data". Mindat.org. 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  2. Glavatskikh, S.F., and Trubkin, N.V., 2000. First findings of native tungsten and silver in exhalation products of the Tolbachik Great Fissure Eruption, Kamchatka. Doklady Earth Sciences 373A(6), 997-999
  3. Kvasnytsya, V.M., Pavliuk, O.V., Kvasnytsya, I.V., and Gurmenko, I.V., 2014. The finding of native tungsten microcrystals in Bilokorovychi proterozoic conglomerates of the Volyn. Dopovidy Natsionalnoi Akademii Nauk Ukrainy 11, 88-94
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