Essentially complete recovery of uranium, yttrium, thorium and rare earth values from phosphate rock during wet-process production of phosphoric acid therefrom

摘要

The uranium, yttrium, thorium and rare earth values contained in a phosphate rock are essentially totally recovered therefrom by, during the wet-process preparation of phosphoric acid from said phosphate rock, acidulating same in the presence of aluminum and/or iron, and optionally silica, and thence recovering said values from the phosphoric acid thus produced.