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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1982
Filed:
Nov. 23, 1981
Ronald H Arendt, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Zircon, ZrSiO.sub.4, is retrieved from zircon sand comprised of ZrSiO.sub.4 crystals and contaminants including SiO.sub.2 and iron by comminuting an aqueous slurry of the sand with iron means exposing the contaminants, admixing the resulting comminuted sand slurry with concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acids producing ferric chloride in solution thereby removing its iron component, admixing the resulting suspension with a flocculating agent agglomerating the suspended particles, admixing the resulting agglomerated mass with concentrated hydrofluoric acid to dissolve its SiO.sub.2 component, recovering the resulting ZrSiO.sub.4, washing it with water and drying.