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Fausto de Elhuyar (11 October 1755 – 6 February 1833) was a Spanish Basque chemist, and the joint discoverer of tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783.

Fausto de Elhuyar was in charge, under a King of Spain commission, of organizing the School of Mines in México City and so was responsible of building an architectural jewel known as "Palacio de Minería". Elhuyar abandoned Mexico after the Mexican War of Independence, when most of the Spanish residents in Mexico were expelled.
Life

He was born in Logroño, son of French born Basque parents from Hasparren (Labourd) , and died in Madrid.

Between 1773 and 1777, Elhúyar studied medicine, surgery and chemistry, as well as mathematics, physics and natural history with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in Paris.

After graduating, he returned to Spain, where he exercised himself in the study of mineralogy, specially that of the Basque Country and Navarre, where he resided. In 1781, he was appointed a