Due to low abundance of tungsten, which requires the mining and ore dressing of a huge ore tonnage to gain a small amount of tungsten, it was always a “valuable” metal.
Dahil sa mababang kasaganaan ng Tungsten, na nangangailangan ng pagmimina at mineral dressing ng isang malaking mineral tonelahe upang makakuha ng isang maliit na halaga ng Tungsten, ito ay palaging isang "mahalagang" mga metal.