TUNGSTEN KEY ATTRIBUTES

• The highest melting point of all elements except for carbon
• One of the heaviest metals
• Extremely high conductivity

TUNGSTEN IS CONSUMED IN FOUR FORMS

• Tungsten Carbide
• Alloying Additions
• Pure Tungsten
• Tungsten-based Chemicals

SOME TUNGSTEN USES

• Heating elements in electric furnaces
• Used for high speed cutting tools, mining and drilling tools, dies, bearings, and armor-piercing projectiles
• Tungsten shot and ammunition (replaces lead)
• Parts of spacecraft, missiles and valves for cars which require to hold up to high temperatures
• Fishing weights
• Cutting tools such as drills, taps, milling cutters, gear cutters and saw blades
• Punches, dies or hot rolls for rolling mills in the steel industry
• Filaments for incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs and television tubes

TUNGSTEN OCCURRENCE

• Tungsten occurs in the natural state only in the form of chemical compounds with other elements.
• Many tungsten bearing minerals exist, only two of them are important for industrial use, namely wolframite and scheelite.