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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert F Benson, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Dean F Martin, Tampa, FL (US);
Assignee:
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ; C22B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423157 ; 4231572 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to the extraction of carbonates of magnesium and/or calcium with a strong hydrogen form cation-exchange resin from a phosphate rock composition in an aqueous slurry, wherein the phosphate rock and the resins have been classified to different non-overlapping particle sizes and separating the slurry into the leached composition and the loaded ion exchange resin; and recovering the calcium and magnesium, and regenerating the ion exchange resin for further use in the process.