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Tungsten also occurs at trace levels (ca. 1 mg kg-1) in several rock-forming minerals. It is notably enriched in mica, which may commonly contain 5–50 mg kg-1, and muscovite in altered granite near W deposits may contain up to 500 mg kg-1 (Wedepohl 1978). Accessory Fe-Ti oxide minerals in igneous rocks contain up to 10 mg kg-1 W. In geochemical