Tungsten (Wolframite)

Overview

Tungsten is a hard, steel-gray metal with the highest melting point of all metals. Wolframite is one of its principal ores.

Tungsten (W, #74) is a dense, hard, silvery-white metal known for having the highest melting point of any metal, making it crucial for high-temperature applications like light bulb filaments, heating elements, and rocket nozzles, often used as tungsten carbide for extremely hard cutting tools, but it’s brittle at room temp and usually found in ores like wolframite.

Tungsten is considered a strategic and critical mineral due to its industrial and defense applications.

Geological Occurrence

FOUND

in quartz veins and granite-related deposits

OFTEN

associated with tin mineralization

BENEFICIATED

via gravity and magnetic separation

Key Uses

Drilling Tools

Cemented carbides for cutting and drilling tools

Drilling Tools

Cemented carbides for cutting and drilling tools

Alloys

High-temperature and wear-resistant alloys

Alloys

Electrical contacts, heating elements, and defense applications

Contacts and Elements

Electrical contacts, heating elements, and defense applications

Tantalum Extraction

When associated with tantalite, columbite contributes to tantalum extraction for electronic components

TRADE PROCESS

Overview
Our trade process spreads across CIF and FOB depending on the buyer’s preference.

Here’s what they entails:

1). Cost Insurance and Freight (CIF): Seller will handle everything from loading the vessel, paying for insurance, and sending the product to wherever the buyer wants it delivered.

2). Freight On Board (FOB): Seller pays for the transportation of the goods to the port of shipment, plus loading costs, while the buyer pays the cost of marine freight transport, insurance, unloading, and transportation from the originating port to the final destination.

TRADE SPECIFICATIONS

Specifics
Origin: Nigeria

Mineral Type: Tungsten (Wolframite)

Physical Specification: Based On Buyer’s Specification

Quantity: Based On Buyer’s Specification

Price: Negotiable / Metric Tonne

TP: Ex Works/FOB/CIF

Payment Method: 100% irrevocable SBLC or L/C at sight.

Shipping Time: 15 days after confirmation of L/C

Loading Port: Lagos, Nigeria