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A fact from Great Wheal Fortune appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 March 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a lone miner is said to have extracted two sacks of wolframite each day from the waste tips of the disused Great Wheal Fortune mine in Cornwall?

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The 'lone miner' in the 1950s would have been taking sacks of wolframite from the spoil heaps, not wolfram (tungsten), which as far as I can tell does not occur in a native metal form. I presume that the source says wolframite, but I don't have access to it to check. Mikenorton (talk) 19:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

The source says wolfram I'm afraid. Jowaninpensans (talk) 21:43, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Tricky, because the source must be wrong - but "verifiability not truth", is I know the requirement. Mikenorton (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Brown and Acton do not give a ref but the final paragraph is ″For a detailed history of Great Wheal Fortune see Justin Brooke's article in the Trevithick Society's Newsletter 14 (8/76), reprinted in Newsletter 40 of the Carn Brea Mining Society (6/98). Probably in one of my local libraries but I won't won't get the chance to check for a few days. Jowaninpensans (talk) 22:59, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

I've checked the Trevithick Society's Newsletters to see if there is any more information on the 1950's miner but no mention I'm afraid. Jowaninpensans (talk) 15:51, 7 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

I've discovered that 'Wolfram' was at one time used for the mineral [1], at least at the end of the 19th century, so perhaps that use persisted. Mikenorton (talk) 23:08, 2 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Kevmin has also found a link to a Mindat page that says 'wolfram' is used as a synonym for 'wolframite' in English, so I've changed the link to point there. Mikenorton (talk) 08:13, 3 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

KevinMcE has now changed the last sentence to say 'wolframite' explicitly, which is fair enough - no need for us to use somewhat archaic language. Mikenorton (talk) 15:45, 4 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

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