Tungsten is mined by conventional underground and open cut mining technologies. Due to the low solubility of scheelite and wolframite and the characteristics of tungsten deposits, in-situ recovery or heap-leaching cannot be used to extract tungsten. On some historical mine sites, reprocessing of tailings can be economic to produce tungsten that was previously not recovered.

From the mined ore, a tungsten concentrate can be produced by various methods. First steps are usually crushing and grinding. Ore sorting (X-ray, optical or UV in the case of scheelite) can be used to pre-enrich the mined ore. As scheelite and wolframite are both heavy minerals, gravity methods can be used to produce a concentrate. Scheelite is also susceptible to flotation while wolframite is not. In contrast, magnetic separation can be used for wolframite while it is not possible for scheelite separation.

  

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