A Study on the Recovery of Rare Earth Minerals from Ja-Eun Iron Ore.

자은철광석으로부터 희토류광물 회수에 관한 연구

  • 전호석 (한국지질자원연구원 자원활용연구부) ;
  • 김준수 (한국지질자원연구원 자원활용연구부) ;
  • 문영배 (강원대학교대학원 지구시스템공학과) ;
  • 이재장 (강원대학교 지구시스템 공학과)
  • Published : 2001.06.30

Abstract

The separation of rare earths minerals is very difficult because of their similar chemical properties. The rare earth minerals are used as the mixed rare earth minerals or the misch metal without separation to each element. However, the high purity rare earths are recently produced commercially to each element so they there are used as the materials for high tech. Based on the characterization results for the raw minerals, we have developed a combined process containing gravity seperation, magnetic seperation and flotation. The result obtained from this study is monazite concentration of TREO grade 69.11% and Recovery 56.02%.

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