摘要:
Basic sodium tungstate leach liquor is treated to reduce the concentration dissolved therein of silica, phosphorus and fluorine impurities in a process which comprises providing a small but effective amount of magnesium in the liquor to maximize removal of silica and phosphorus from solution in the liquor while maintaining the liquor temperature between about 60.degree. C. and about 100.degree. C. and the liquor pH between about 9 and about 11, filtering the liquor, adjusting the liquor pH to between about 6 and about 8 and the liquor temperature to between about 20.degree. C. and about 60.degree. C., and then providing a small but effective amount of aluminum hydroxide in the filtered liquor to maximize removal of fluorine from solution in the liquor while maintaining the liquor temperature between about 20.degree. C. and about 60.degree. C. and the liquor pH between about 6 and about 8.
摘要:
Dissolved molybdenum is removed from sodium tungstate solutions by adding sulfuric acid to lower the pH value of the solution to between about 8 and about 5, adding to the sodium tungstate solution a water-soluble sulfide in an amount of at least 0.5 gram per liter (gpl) in excess of that required to precipitate as sulfides molybdenum and certain other metals, then lowering the pH value of the sodium tungstate solution to between about 4.0 and about 1.5 as rapidly as possible with sulfuric acid in such a way as to precipitate molybdenum trisulfide while minimizing co-precipitation of tungsten.