Unitika Ltd.

Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.

Doryokuro Kakunenryo Kaihatsu Jigyodan

Shozo Tomoshige

Kozo Kondo

Hideto Obara

Masahide Hirai

Keiichiro Otomura

Kunio Sekine

Hitoshi Masuda

Soichiro Yano

Kodo Ishibashi

The present invention provides a process for producing a uranium oxide by dissolving a yellow cake in sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid, bringing the obtained solution into contact with a chelating resin of diaminocarboxylic acid type and subjecting the product to neutralizing precipitation followed by heat treatment. By the contact of the solution with the chelating resin, iron, copper, molybdenum and vanadium among the metallic impurities are removed and in the subsequent neutralizing precipitation step, other metallic impurities such as aluminum, calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium are removed. This process can easily produce uranium oxide having a high purity using a simple apparatus.

Process for producing uranium oxides

A novel method is disclosed which enables gallium and/or indium to be selectively separated and concentrated from a solution containing them in very low concentrations together with many other metal ions in rather high concentrations. The solution is passed through a bed of a chelating ion exchange resin having an amino carboxylic acid group either immediately or after the pH adjustment. Gallium and/or indium adsorbed on the chelate resin is desorbed by eluting with a mineral acid. The eluate, after the pH adjustment, is passed through another bed of a chelating ion exchange resin having an amino carboxylic acid group, and the resin is treated with a mineral acid to elute the metal ions adsorbed on the resin to thereby recover gallium and/or indium in the form of a concentrated solution.

Method of selective separation and concentration of gallium and/or

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