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Judith A Ladd

Clarence D Vanderpool

Martin B MacInnis

Michael J Miller

Joseph E Ritsko

Eric F Husted

Mary A Fedorchak

Martin B McInnis

A method is disclosed for recovering oxalate from oxalate containing solutions containing complexes of iron and chromium. The method involves adjusting the pH of the solution to from about 1 to 2, adding calcium chloride in an amount equal to at least about 3 moles per mole of iron, and digesting the resulting calcium chloride treated solution at at least about 50.degree. C. for a sufficient time to form a solid consisting esssentially of calcium oxalate, followed by separating the solid from the resulting mother liquor.

Recovery of oxalate from solutions containing complexes of iron and

A method for recovering chromium from chromium-bearing material which comprises heating the material which can contain any one or combination of Co, Ni, Fe, Mo, and W with solid alkali metal hydroxide in an oxidizing atmosphere at 600.degree. C.-1000.degree. C. to form a fused material containing water soluble compounds of Cr, Mo, and W contained therein. The fused material is cooled and contacted with water to form a leach solution and a residue. The leach solution is adjusted to a pH of from about 5-8 with sulfuric acid, and a water soluble calcium salt is added. The chromium-rich liquor is then adjusted to a pH of 1-3 with sulfuric acid. Sodium metabisulfite is added to the chromium-rich liquor to reduce the chromium to the trivalent state after which the pH is adjusted to 5-8 with a base to form a precipitate of essentially all of the chromium.

Method for recovering chromium from chromium-bearing material

A method is disclosed for purifying cobaltic hydroxide of sodium and chloride which involves firing the cobaltic hydroxide at a temperature of from about 180.degree. C. to about 850.degree. C. to remove essentially all of the water and to release sodium from the crystal matrix of the cobaltic hydroxide, slurrying the dried cobaltic hydroxide in a deionized water solution which contains a sufficient amount of an ionic compound to prevent the peptization of the cobaltic hydroxide, to solublize essentially all of the chloride and a greater portion of the sodium than would otherwise be solubilized without the firing step, and removing the purified cobaltic hydroxide from the resulting liquor.

Method for removing sodium and chloride from cobaltic hydroxide

A process is disclosed for recovering tungsten, iron, and manganese from tungsten bearing material. The process involves digesting the material in a sufficient amount of sulfuric acid at a temperature of at least about 80.degree. C. for a sufficient time in the presence of coal as a reducing agent to form a digestion solution containing the major portion of the scandium, iron, and manganese and a digestion residue containing the major portion of the tungsten, followed by separating the solution from the residue. The major portion of the scandium can be extracted from the digestion solution with an organic solution consisting essentially of a mixture of tertiary alkyl primary amines which are present in an amount sufficient to extract the major portion of the scandium, and the balance an essentially aromatic solvent. The scandium is stripped from the organic with hydrochloric acid which is then separated from the stripped organic. The extraction can be accomplished by an organic solution consisting essentially of an extracting agent which is a dialkyl phosphoric acid and an essentially aromatic solvent. In this latter case, the stripping agent for the scandium is an aqueous solution of ammonium carbonate.

Recovery of tungsten, scandium, iron, and manganese from tungsten

A process is disclosed for recovering metals from chromium bearing material comprising one or more or the metals of cobalt, nickel, molybdenum, tungsten, iron, tin, aluminum. The process comprises atomizing the material to produce a flowable powder which is then fused in an oxidizing atmosphere with sufficient alkali metal hydroxide at a temperature sufficient to form a nonmagnetic fused material in which the chromium, tungsten and molybdenum are present as water soluble salts. The resulting fused material is then slurried with a sufficient amount of water to dissolve the water soluble compounds. The pH is adjusted to from about 9.2 to about 9.6 with an acid to allow insolubles to form which contain any cobalt, and nickel and the major portion of any iron, tin and aluminum followed by separating the insolubles from the resulting first liquor. The pH of the first liquor is adjusted to 0 to 2 with an acid and methyl alcohol is then added to it in an amount sufficient to reduce the chromium to the trivalent state. Activated carbon is then added in an amount sufficient to form a carbon-containing suspension wherein essentially all of any tungsten and molybdenum contained therein are adsorbed by the carbon, followed by separating the carbon-tungsten-molybdenum from the resulting second liquor, the pH of which is adjusted to about 5.0 to 8.5 with a base to form a precipitate containing essentially all of the chromium, followed by separating this precipitate from the resulting spent liquor.

Process for recovering chromium and other metal values from chromium

A process is disclosed for recovering scandium from a tungsten bearing material containing tungsten, iron manganese and scandium. The process involves digesting the material in an aqueous solution selected from the group consisting of a saturated solution of sulfur dioxide and a sulfuric acid solution containing an additional reducing agent at a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time to form a digestion solution containing the major portion of the scandium, iron, and manganese, and a digestion solid containing the major portion of the tungsten which is separated from the digestion solution. The major portion of the scandium is extracted from the digestion solution with an organic consisting essentially of an extracting agent which is essentially a mixture of alkyl primary amines which are present in an amount sufficient to extract the major portion of the scandium without extracting appreciable amounts of iron and manganese, and the balance an essentially aromatic solvent. After separation of the scandium containing organic from the raffinate, the organic is stripped of the scandium with hydrochloric acid which is then separated from the stripped organic. In an optional additional steps, iron is recovered by adjusting the pH of the raffinate to precipitate the major portion of the iron and manganese which is separated from the resulting liquor. A sufficient amount of chlorine gas is contacted with an aqueous slurry of the precipitate at a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time to form a manganese containing solution containing the major portion of the manganese which was in the precipitate and a solid containing the major portion of the iron which was in the precipitate.

A process is disclosed for recovering tungsten, scandium, iron, and manganese from tungsten bearing material. The process involves digesting the material in sufficient sulfuric acid at a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time in the presence of a reducing agent to form a digestion solution containing the major portion of the scandium, iron, and manganese, and a digestion residue containing the major portion of the tungsten, separating the digestion solution from the digestion residue and extracting essentially all of the scandium from the solution with an organic consisting essentially of an extracting agent which is a dialkyl phosphoric acid which is present in an amount sufficient to extract essentially all of the scandium without extracting appreciable amounts of iron and manganese, and the balance an essentially aromatic solvent. The scandium containing organic is removed from the raffinate and stripped of the scandium with an aqueous ammonium carbonate solution which is separated from the stripped organic. The pH of the raffinate is adjusted to at least about 2 with a base and electrolyzed to remove the major portion of the iron as iron powder, which is separated from the resulting electrolyzed solution which contains the major portion of the manganese.

Recovery of tungsten, scandium, iron, and manganese values from tungsten

A chromium-cobalt alloy fine powder is disclosed which consists essentially of spheres with the chromium and cobalt being relatively uniformly distributed throughout the particles of the powder. The process for producing the powder is disclosed. The process involves firing a relatively uniform admixture consisting essentially of anhydrous cobalt (II) chloride and chromium (III) chloride in a furnace in a hydrogen atmosphere at a first temperature of at least about 400.degree. C. and below the sublimation temperature of chromium (III) chloride for a time sufficient to reduce essentially all of the cobalt (II) chloride to cobalt metal and to reduce essentially all of the chromium (III) chloride to chromium (II) chloride. The temperature is elevated to a second temperature of at least about 750.degree. C. and below the sublimation temperature of chromium (II) chloride. The elevation is done by raising the temperature in increments of about 100.degree. C. and holding at the elevated temperature until the evolution of HCl gas ceases. The first reduced mixture is fired at the second temperature for a time sufficient to to reduce essentially all of the chromium (II) chloride to chromium metal without causing appreciable melting of the cobalt metal, to form the alloy powder which is then cooled in a non-oxidizing atmosphere.

Chromium-cobalt fine alloy powder and process for producing same

A process is disclosed for recovering chromium from a chromium bearing material containing cobalt, molybdenum, and tungsten. The process involves roasting the material and alkali metal compound at a temperature of at least about 400.degree. C. for a sufficient time to react the alkali metal compound with the material and form a reacted mixture containing essentially all of the chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten as alkali salts. The reacted mixture is water leached to dissolve the alkali salts and form a leach solution containing essentially all of the chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten, and a leach solid containing essentially all of the cobalt. After separation of the leach solution from the leach solid, the pH of the leach solution is adjusted to from about 0.5 to about 3.0 with an acid and a sufficient amount of a reducing agent is added to reduce essentially all of the chromium to the trivalent state. A precipitating agent is added to precipitate essentially all of the molybdenum and tungsten values while leaving essentially all of the reduced chromium values in the mother liquor, while the pH is maintained at from about 0.5 to about 3.0. The precipitate is separated from the mother liquor. A sufficient amount of ammonium sulfate is added to this mother liquor to precipitate essentially all of the chromium contained therein.

Process for recovery of chromium

A process is disclosed for recovering tungsten, iron, and manganese from tungsten bearing material. The process involves digesting the material in a sulfur dioxide solution at a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time to form a digestion solution containing the major portion of the scandium, iron, and manganese, and a digestion solid containing the major portion of the tungsten which is separated from the digestion solution. The major portion of the scandium is extracted from the digestion solution with an organic consisting essentially of an extracting agent which is essentially a mixture of alkyl primary amines which are present in an amount sufficient to extract the major portion of the scandium without extracting appreciable amounts of iron and manganese, and the balance an essentially aromatic solvent. After separation of the scandium containing organic from the raffinate, the organic is stripped of the scandium with hydrochloric acid which is then separated from the stripped organic. The raffinate is adjusted to a pH of at least about 3.5 with a base to precipitate the major portion of the iron and manganese which is separated from the resulting liquor. A sufficient amount of chlorine gas is contacted with an aqueous slurry of the precipitate at a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time to form a manganese containing solution containing the major portion of the manganese which was in the precipitate and a solid containing the major portion of the iron which was in the precipitate.

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Judith A Ladd