Abd El Ghani, I.M. (2000) Geology, Petrology and Radioactivity of G. El-A’urf Area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena.

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• TITLE: Potash Breakdown of Poly-Mineralized Niobium-Tantalum-Lanthanides Ore Material

  AUTHORS: Mona N. El Hazek, Nawal H. Mohamed, Azza A. Gabr

  KEYWORDS: Lkali Fusion, Agitation Leaching, Niobium-Tantalum-Lanthanides Ores, Polymineralized Ore Material

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, Vol.10 No.3, March 14, 2019

  ABSTRACT: The potentiality of the alkali breakdown of the poly mineralized ore material south Gabal El-A’urf area, central Eastern Desert, Egypt is investigated. It includes the multiple oxide mineral tanteuxenite, monazite, bastnasite, anatase, as well as zircon. This ore material assaying lanthanides (RE2O3 1.9%), niobium (Nb2O5 1.25%) as well as titanium and zirconium (TiO2 and ZrO2 1.23% and 1.12%) respectively besides tantalum (Ta2O5 0.13%), were used for the present work. This sample has thus been subjected to two alkali breakdown techniques using potash; namely agitation leaching and fusion. The latter technique was found to be preferred as it gives higher leaching efficiency. The optimum leaching conditions are weight ratio of the ore/potassium hydroxide 1/2 at 400°C for 1 h. The realized leaching efficiencies attained 95.0% and 93.7% for Nb and Ta respectively as well as 96% for lanthanides and 75% for Ti while that for Zr did not exceed 10%.