Abstract: Tungsten-containing minerals carry a lot of tungsten mineralization information. In addition to wolframite and scheelite, there are many kinds of tungsten-containing minerals in tungsten ores. These minerals are often neglected because they are small and uncommon. According to such minerals often contains radioactive elements such as uranium and thorium, in this paper, the α-track etching experiment was designed in accordance with the optical microscope and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to study these minerals in Juyuan tungsten deposit. A total of 32 track etch points were found in 7 thin sections from the Juyuan tungsten deposit. It is found by SEM that the tungsten-containing minerals of the scheelite ore not only include the scheelite and the wolframite, but also include niobate minerals. The feasibility of searching for tungsten-containing minerals by α-track etching experiments was also analyzed in this paper. In addition, a large number of rare earth element-, niobium-, tantalum- and zirconium-bearing minerals rich in uranium and thorium were found at the corresponding locations of the etched points in thin sections, which suggests α-track etching is also suitable for locating these minerals in thin sections.