wolframite

[woo l-fruh-mahyt, vawl-]

noun

a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO4, occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.

Also wolfram.

Origin of wolframite

First recorded in 1865–70; wolfram + -ite¹

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Before the war nearly half of the world's supply of tungsten ore (wolframite) came from Burma.
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Edwin E. Slosson

British Dictionary definitions for wolframite

wolframite

noun

a black to reddish-brown mineral consisting of tungstates of iron and manganese in monoclinic crystalline form: it occurs mainly in quartz veins and is the chief ore of tungsten. Formula: (Fe,Mn)WO 4

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