EXTRACTION METHOD OF RARE-EARTH METALS FROM PHOSPHOGYPSUM Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC C22B59/00 C22B3/04 C22B3/24 

FIELD: metallurgy.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used in the technology of obtaining the compounds of rare-earth metals at complex processing of apatites, and namely for obtaining of concentrate of rare-earth metals (REM) from phosphogypsum. Method involves sorption of rare-earth metals. At that, prior to sorption, phosphogypsum is crushed in water so that pulp is obtained in the ratio Solid : Liquid=1:(5-10). Sorption is performed by introducing to the obtained pulp of sorbent containing sulphate and phosphate functional groups, at the ratio of Solid : Sorbent=1:(5-10) and mixing during 3-6 h.

EFFECT: increasing REM extraction degree to finished product.

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