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Extraction of scandium from scandium-rich material derived …

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Recovery of scandium, yttrium and lanthanides from titanium ore

It utilizes feeding titanium ore to a fluidized bed chlorinator at 800°-1250° C. to produce a vaporous (principally titanium chloride and possibly silicon and iron chlorides) phase and a solid residue and recovering scandium from the solid residue. The very low level of scandium present in titanium ore is concentrated in the residue, making ...

Concentration and Separation of Scandium from Ni Laterite Ore …

The presence of a considerable amount of scandium in lateritic nickel-cobalt ores necessitates the investigation of possible processing alternatives to recover scandium as a byproduct during nickel and cobalt production. Therefore, in this study, rather than interfering with the main nickel-cobalt production circuit, the precipitation-separation …

Scandium

The strategic importance of scandium was emphasised by its inclusion in the US government's 2018 list of 35 critical minerals 1. This list was an initial step toward ensuring reliable and secure supplies of …

Scandium: Ore deposits, the pivotal role of magmatic …

Request PDF | Scandium: Ore deposits, the pivotal role of magmatic enrichment and future exploration | Scandium (Sc), known as the "miracle metal", has unique properties in material sciences ...

Recovery of scandium, yttrium and lanthanides from zircon …

This patent describes a process for extracting scandium from ore comprising zirconium silicate. It comprises feeding scandium-containing zircon ore to a fluidized bed chlorinator at 800 {degrees} C-1250 {degrees} C to produce a vaporous phase, the vaporous phase principally comprising zirconium and silicon chlorides, and to …

Scandium Recovery Methods from Mining, Metallurgical …

The recovery of scandium (Sc) from wastes and various resources using solvent extraction (SX) was discussed in detail. Moreover, the metallurgical extractive procedures for Sc recovery were presented. Acidic and neutral organophosphorus (OPCs) extractants are the most extensively used in industrial …

Scandium‐Bearing Minerals in the Bayan Obo Nb‐REE‐Fe …

The crustal abundance of scandium is 22 ppm ( Rudnick & Fountain, 1995 ). According to Wang (2004), various types of ore in the Bayan Obo deposit have Sc 2 O 3 contents between 40 and 169 ppm. In the REE ore tailing, the Sc 2 …

A Process Flowsheet for the Extraction of Niobium, Titanium …

Scandium is primarily deported in dolomite, with lesser quantities in pyrochlore and biotite. The process flowsheet recovers separate niobium, titanium, and scandium products. Scandium is extracted from whole ore hydrochloric acid leach solutions using solvent extraction and is further refined through a re-leach and …

Scandium: Ore deposits, the pivotal role of magmatic …

Scandium (Sc), known as the 'miracle metal', has unique properties in material sciences, and is a critical resource in the world due to the low supply but wide applications in advanced technology. Despite not extraordinarily sparse in the Earth's crust, Sc is often dispersed and does not form ore deposits.

Extraction Behavior of Scandium From a Refractory Nickel Laterite Ore

This study investigated the high-pressure acid leaching behavior of scandium (Sc) together with nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) from a refractory nickel laterite ore.

Metals | Free Full-Text | Selective Recovery of Scandium (Sc) …

The high affinity and selectivity of Puromet MTS9580 make it a promising sorbent for the recovery of scandium from PLS of selective leaching of BR. Obtaining Sc and other REE concentrates from desorption solutions will be discussed in future studies.

The Future of Scandium Recovery from Wastes

Therefore, scandium extraction from alternative resources such as secondary resources located in Europe is of great concern. Within this context, this work provides a condensed state-of-art review of the issue of …

Separation and recovery of scandium from high pressure …

A process for separation and recovery of Sc from high pressure acid leach (HPAL) liquor of limonitic laterite was proposed in this paper. Based on the chemical composition of the leach liquor, precipitation thermodynamic …

Technospheric mining of scandium from

This lack of scandium occurrence in high concentrations is reflected by the global scandium production that was traditionally relying on byproduct recovery from the processing of other metals, most notably the tailings from the production of other rare earth elements and uranium ( Gambogi, 2019 ).

Development of Scandium-Recovery Process from Titanium …

Since 2015, JX Nippon Mining & Metals has been developing a process for scandium recovery from the residue of a titanium -smelting process. The process consists of the following steps: scandium concentrating by classification or neutralization, selective scandium leaching, impurity removal by neutralization, solvent extraction of scandium …

Extraction of scandium from scandium-rich material

For scandium recovery from various processing liquid wastes and leachates, solvent extraction is widely used because it generally offers the advantages of good processing capacity, operational ...

Recovery of scandium from silicate minerals by high …

This study investigated the leaching of scandium from a Sc-bearing silicate ore. The Sc concentrate obtained by beneficiation pre-enrichment has 1.03 …

A selective hydrometallurgical method for scandium recovery …

Scandium accounts for approximately 90% of the commercial worth of the REEs found in RM, and its high concentration (50–120 mg/kg) makes it a suitable ore for this element (Reid et al., 2017; Akcil et al., 2018).

Recovery of scandium, yttrium and lanthanides from zircon …

This is a process for extracting scandium from zircon ore. It utilizes feeding zircon sand to a fluidized bed chlorinator at about 1000° C. to produce a vaporous (principally zirconium and silicon chlorides) phase and a solid residue …

The Future of Scandium Recovery from Wastes "2279

Priority was given to addressing the technological and economic challenges associated with the recovery of scandium from the said residues, with particular emphasis on the bauxite residue from alumina production, which represents nearly 5 million tons on dry basis per year in Europe.

The Future of Scandium Recovery from Wastes

Therefore, scandium extraction from alternative resources such as secondary resources located in Europe is of great concern. Within this context, this work provides a condensed state-of-art review of the issue of scandium recovery from industrial wastes.

Recovery of scandium from bauxite residue—red mud: a …

Besides, scandium-extractable ore at economic concentrations is very scarce [9], so it needs to be produced from by-products of industrial extraction of a range of other metals such as uranium ...

Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022

The Bokan project in Alaska and the Round Top project in Texas also included scandium recovery in their process plans. In addition, research continued to develop methods for separating scandium from coal and coal byproducts. SOFC sourcing of scandium is expanding beyond China to include Japan and the Philippines.

A novel process for recovery of scandium, rare earth and …

The total reserves of scandium (Sc 2 O 3) are about 115,000 tons (Lin et al., 2007), and thorium (ThO 2) resource reserves of Bayan Obo mine are 221,000 tons (Xu, 2005). However, comprehensive utilization rate of niobium, scandium and some other elements in Bayan Obo ore is very low.

Environments | Free Full-Text | Process Evaluation of Scandium

Wang et al. [ 18] reviewed scandium recovery through metallurgical pathway from various resources, including scandium ores, residues, tailings and waste liquors, focusing on the selection of processes to recover scandium as a minor element and incorporating the scandium recovery process into the main flowsheet for the …

Metallurgical processes for scandium recovery from various …

Recovery of Scandium, Nickel and Cobalt from Hydrometallurgical Waste of Laterite. Recovery of new-energy critical metals including scandium, nickel and cobalt as well as copper and zinc from a neutralization residue produced in laterite hydrometallurgical process has been studied.….

An innovative process for extracting scandium from …

This ore contains considerable amount of scandium, a strategic material in increasingly high demand in various industries. Here, an innovative two-step process was developed in which scandium is first concentrated in a slag phase using carbothermic reduction and then is leached using NaOH cracking process.

Taganito HPAL Plant Project

Ternary extractant system consisting of PC-88A, TOPO, and Versatic 10 for recovery of scandium (III) from nickel laterite processing liquors

Selective scandium ion capture through coordination …

Scandium is challenging and expensive to isolate in pure form using conventional solvent extraction. Now a covalent organic framework (COF) has been synthesized that can incorporate scandium ...

Yttrium recovery from primary and secondary sources: A …

Feuling, 1991a, Feuling, 1991b described a method for recovery of yttrium and scandium from titanium ore. Yttrium was recovered by residue after treatment of titanium ore for the retrieval of scandium. This element was recovered by leaching with HCl, followed by solvent extraction with a polyalkyl phosphate – containing organic phase.

Recovery of scandium and aluminum from limonitic laterite …

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(PDF) Extraction of Scandium from Lateritic …

The objective of this study is determining the extraction possibility of scandium from the leach solution of lateritic nickel-cobalt ore by ion exchange chromatography using various resins.

(PDF) Process Evaluation of Scandium Production and Its

The environmental impact of scandium recovery and recycling has also been discussed. Concentration of scandium in different mineral ores other than bauxite ores.

Recovering Scandium from Scandium Rough …

The recovery of scandium mainly refers to the scandium enriched in some intermediate products or by-products when comprehensively treating scandium bearing mineral resources. When …

Recovery of scandium from Canadian bauxite residue …

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Recovery of scandium from Canadian bauxite residue utilizing acid baking followed by water leaching." by J. Anawati et al.

A novel process for recovery of scandium, rare earth and …

Zhang et al. [9] proposed a new combined extraction process for recovering rare earth, niobium and scandium from Bayan Obo tailings consisting of phase transformation of major minerals in a NaCl ...