Journal article
Coextraction of uranium and radium from ore with ferric chloride
Abstract
Ferric chloride leaching, at temperatures around 74°C, is found to remove up to remove up to 97% of the uranium from ores occurring in the Elliot Lake area of Canada. Radium removal is poor due to the formation of sulphates from the sulphides present in the ore. However, if the sulphides are removed initially by flotation, then ferric chloride can extract as much as 92% of the radium, giving tailings which are sulphide-free and with radium …
Authors
Nirdosh I; Baird MHI; Muthuswami SV; Banerjee S
Journal
Hydrometallurgy, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 265–283
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 1983
DOI
10.1016/0304-386x(83)90059-2
ISSN
0304-386X