C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 22 – B
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
22
B
53/213, 166/30
C22B 3/12 (2006.01) C01G 43/00 (2006.01) C22B 60/02 (2006.01) E21B 43/28 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1113725
PROCESS FOR EXTRACTING URANIUM FROM ITS ORES WITH ALKALINE EARTH CARBONATE AND BICARBONATE SOLUTIONS IN THE PRESENCE OF CARBON DIOXIDE ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Uranium is extracted from its ores, whether the ores are still in underground deposits or removed therefrom by oxidizing the uranium to a valency of 6 by means of oxygenated water or oxygen in the presence of carbon diox- ide, dissolving the uranium by means of alkaline earth carbonate and bicarbonate lixiviant solutions in the pre- sence of carbon dioxide under a pressure below 60 bars and at a temperature of from O tc 100°C, then separating the insoluble substances from the lixiviant after expansion to 4 bars or less to produce a calcium uranyl carbonate liquor. Uranium is recovered from this Iiquor after expansion under vacuum by either: (a) a limewash treatment at a pH of 8 to 9 which precipitates calcium carbonate and separating a liquid fraction which is treated in turn with a limewash at a pH of 10 to 12 and allows the calcium uranate to be deposited, or (b) separation of the calcium carbonate resulting from the ex?ansion and subjecting the liquor to a limewash treatment at a pH of 10 to 12 to form a mixture of calcium uranate and calcium carbonate. After atmospheric expansion and separa- tion of the calcium carbonate resulting from this expansion, the liquor may be treated with hydrogen peroxide to precipi- tate uranium peroxide or it may be passed over a bed of anionic resins to fix the uranyl carbonate ions.
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Floreancig Antoine G.l.
Schuffenecker Robert E.
Mcconnell And Fox
Minatome Corporation
Uranerz U.s.a. Inc.
Wyoming Mineral Corporation
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