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Wolframite

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Wolframite

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Wolframite

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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Wolframite

Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
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About WolframiteHide

Lustre:
Sub-Metallic
Hardness:
4 - 4½
Crystal System:
Monoclinic
Name:
Per Agricola, it is derived from "volf," "wolf," and "rahm," "ram," for "froth", "cream," "soot" (Latin = Lupi spuma), perhaps in allusion to an objectionable scum or substance formed during the smelting of tin ores containing tungsten; possibly also derived from "lupus" and "wolf", which were alchemists' terms for antimony, for which it may have been mistaken as an ore.
Synonym:
A synonym of 'Ferberite-Hübnerite Series'
Material usually chemically between Hübnerite and Ferberite with unspecified chemical composition. Rarely, "wolframite" could also correspond to other members of the wolframite group.

Occurs in high-temperature hydrothermal veins, in greisen, granitic pegmatites; in alluvial and eluvial deposits.

"Wolframite" of the Badzhalski ore deposit is extremely enriched in rhenium: up to 3.52 wt.% Re2>O7 (Alekseev & Marin, 2018).


Unique IdentifiersHide

Mindat ID:
4305 (as Wolframite)
10288 (as Ferberite-Hübnerite Series)
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:4305:8 (as Wolframite)
mindat:1:1:10288:1 (as Ferberite-Hübnerite Series)

Similar NamesHide

WolframineA synonym of Tungstite

Internet Links for WolframiteHide

References for WolframiteHide

Reference List:
De natura fossilium - Lib. I-Xp.255 - as Lupi Spuma
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Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik (1758) Försök till en Mineralogie eller Mineral Rikets Upställning. J. A. Carlbohm, Stockholm.
Linnaeus (1778) Natursystem des Mineralreichs, Gmelin: 3: 78 (as Lupus jovis, molybdaenum).
Pryce (1778) Pryce, W. (1778) Mineralogia cornubiensis. 331pp., London: 317, 321, 324 (as Cal, Call, Gal, Mock-lead).
de Elhuyar, J.J. and F. (1785) A Chemical Examination of Wolfram and Examination of a New Metal Which Enters into its Composition, London (as Tungstic acid, iron, and manganese).
Cronstedt (1788) Magellan’s edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, London: 208, 866 (as Wolframum, Manganesia, parva cum portoine martis et jovis mixta).
Haüy, René Just (1801) Traité de Minéralogie (1st ed.) Vol. 4. Chez Louis, Paris. p.314 - as Schéelin ferruginé
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Mohs, Frederick; Haidinger, William (1825) Treatise on Mineralogy Vol. 2. p.387 - as Prismatic scheelium ore
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Breithaupt, A. (1832) Vollständige Characteristik etc.: 2nd. Ed.: 227 (as Wolframit).
Dana, James D. (1837) A System of Mineralogy (1st ed.)p.373 - as Wolfram
Lévy, Armand (1838) Description d'une collection de minéraux, formée par m. Henri Heuland, et appartenant à m. C.H. Hampden Turner, de Rooksnest, dans le comté de Surrey en Angleterre. Tome Troisiéme Vol. 3. F. Richter et Haas. 475 pp. p.362
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Fritsch (1878) Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften, HalleP: 3: 864 ("Reinite" pseudomorphs after Scheelite).
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