Extracting uranium from carbonaceous ores. Report of investigations/1981
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5140444
As part of its goal of maintaining an adequate supply of minerals to meet national economic and strategic needs, the Bureau of Mines devised a processing sequence for recovering uranium from carbonaceous ores. Uranium extractions of 97 pct were obtained by contacting the ore with a solution containing 400 grams of ferric sulfate hydrate in 200 ml water for 3 hr at boiling temperature (96/sup 0/). Uranium was recovered from the leaching solution by solvent extraction with tri-issooctyl amine. The barren ferric sulfate solution was recycled to the leaching system. The leaching process resulted in no detectable dissolution of carbonaceous material from the ore.
- Research Organization:
- Bureau of Mines, Reno, NV (USA). Reno Research Center
- OSTI ID:
- 5140444
- Report Number(s):
- PB-82-158957
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
ACTINIDES
AMINES
BROWN COAL
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
DISSOLUTION
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
EXTRACTION
EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HYDROMETALLURGY
IRON COMPOUNDS
IRON SULFATES
LEACHING
LIGNITE
MATERIALS
MEDIUM TEMPERATURE
METALLURGY
METALS
ORE PROCESSING
ORES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PROCESSING
RECYCLING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
SULFATES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
URANIUM
URANIUM ORES
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
ACTINIDES
AMINES
BROWN COAL
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
DISSOLUTION
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
EXTRACTION
EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HYDROMETALLURGY
IRON COMPOUNDS
IRON SULFATES
LEACHING
LIGNITE
MATERIALS
MEDIUM TEMPERATURE
METALLURGY
METALS
ORE PROCESSING
ORES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PROCESSING
RECYCLING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLVENT EXTRACTION
SULFATES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
URANIUM
URANIUM ORES