PROCESS FOR THE SEPARATION AND RECOVERY OF MOLYBDENUM AND URANIUM FROM LEACH SOLUTION USING ION EXCHANGE

摘要

ABSTRACTA process is described for recovering uranium from a pregnantlixiviant containing uranium values and a certain portion of molybdenumvalues comprising passing the pregnant lixiviant through an anionexchange resin to capture the uranium and molybdenum values on theresin, eluting the uranium and molybdenum values from the resin with asalt solution, passing the elute through a weak acid cationic resin inits hydrogen form to capture the uranium values on the resin andtreating the resulting eluate to precipitate uranium therefrom toproduce the familiar "yellow-cake."