Tungsten extractive metallurgy: A review of processes and …
When treating scheelite concentrate with high impurity contents or wolframite concentrate, the process becomes more complex and meets difficulties to obtain the high quality of production. Some impurities, such as phosphorus and arsenic, may react with solid tungstic acid and form soluble heteropolytungstic acid. Thus, a …
Wolframite Conversion in Treating a Mixed Wolframite…
Complete wolframite conversion in sulfuric acid is significant for expanding the applicability of the sulfuric acid method for producing ammonium paratungstate. In this paper, the conversion of wolframite in treating a mixed wolframite–scheelite concentrate by sulfuric acid was studied systematically. The results show that the …
Review of tungsten resource reserves, tungsten concentrate …
The WO3 grade of wolframite concentrate obtained by gravity separation of wolframite slime in the Dalong Mine can be increased by 10% by magnetic separation [65]. The magnetic separation process is an effective method for the pretreatment of low-grade wolframite or to separate wolframite from scheelite [49]. 3.2 Scheelite beneficiation …
3 Separation Methods for Wolframite Concentrating
Aiming to explore a sustainable process for tungsten extraction from wolframite concentrate, the digestion behavior and mechanism of wolframite in HCl …
Tungsten | Geoscience Australia
Tungsten occurs as wolframite, which is an iron manganese tungstate mineral ( [Fe,Mn]WO 4 ), and scheelite (CaWO 4 ). Tungsten-bearing deposits occur in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and along the eastern coast of Australia. There is potential for new resource definition and upgrade of existing resources in historical …
Studies on the recovery of tungsten from a composite wolframite …
The mineralogical composition (by weight) of the wolframite–scheelite concentrate used in the roasting studies is as follows: wolframite+scheelite 34%, cassiterite 5.6% and tourmaline 60.4%. The partial chemical analysis of the sample is: WO 3 21.21%, CaO 3.64% and Sn 5.0%. About 90% by weight of the feed used for the …
Wolfram – Ores & concentrates (primary raw …
Wolframite (Fe,Mn)WO 4. Iron/manganese tungstate, "black" tungsten ore, can be enriched by gravity methods and magnetic separation. Main producer countries for tungsten concentrates. Your contact person - …
CAUSTIC DECOMPOSITION OF SCHEELITE AND …
scheelite concentrate and low-grade mixed scheelite-wolframite concentrate, have been de- composed with a high tungsten recovery and low leaching efficiency of imputities. The aver- age targets of industrial practice in several plants are shown in Table 2 and Table 3. The comparison of the present process with the soda digestion process, which ...
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Extraction of Sodium Tungstate from Tungsten Ore by
The chemical composition of the wolframite concentrate used in the present study is shown in Table 1. The concentrate mainly contained WO 3, FeO and MnO, with small amounts of CaO, SiO 2 and sulfur. The concentrate was dried at 120 °C for 24 h and ground for the experiments. An amount of 10 g concentrate was mixed with the required …
Tungsten Ores and Concentrates
Concentrates [wolframite (including ferberite and huebnerite) and sheelite (natural and synthetic)] contain other elements in addition to WO3. For concentrations of other components, see the Certificates of Analysis for each lot. 3.2 Common Names/Synonyms Synonyms: See Section 1.2 for common names and synonyms. 3.3 CAS Number/Unique …
Extraction of Tungsten from Wolframite Sample Using …
The wolframite concentrate sample used in this study was obtained from a local mine situated in Namaqualand in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. According to the manufacturer, the ore was first crushed and milled to fine particles (< 75 μm) using different types of crushing techniques.
Decomposing scheelite and scheelite-wolframite mixed concentrate …
Abstract. Scheelite and scheelite-wolframite mixed concentrates with different grades were decomposed by caustic soda digestion, and the effects of caustic soda (NaOH) dosage, the ratio of water ...
3 Separation Methods for Wolframite Concentrating
3. Electric Separation. In addition to wolframite, the wolframite concentrate also contains scheelite, cassiterite, and sulfide. In addition to removing sulfide by table floatation and separating wolframite by magnetic separation, electrical separation can be used to separate scheelite and cassiterite, the resulting product is tin concentrate.
Tungsten (W) Ore | Minerals, Occurrence » Geology Science
The extracted tungsten concentrate is then further processed into tungsten oxide, which is a primary intermediate product used in the production of tungsten metal and its alloys. ... Wolframite [(Fe,Mn)WO4]: Wolframite is an iron-manganese tungstate mineral and is another important source of tungsten. It typically forms in hydrothermal …
Tungsten Metallurgy | SpringerLink
The main raw materials used for tungsten metallurgy are wolframite concentrate and scheelite concentrate. The metallurgical processes mainly include …
Leaching Behavior and Mechanism of Scheelite and …
The wolframite concentrate contains 69.50% WO 3, 11.12% Fe, 6.56% Mn, and 1.95% Ca. The scheelite concentrate contains 67.98% WO 3, 0.51% Fe, 0.36% …
Wolframite concentrate conversion kinetics and mechanism …
Additionally, the solid converted product of the mixed wolframite–scheelite concentrate has an excellent leachability of tungsten in an aqueous ammonium carbonate solution at ambient temperature ...
Tungsten and arsenic substance flow analysis of a
The preprocessing for wolframite concentrate is first conducted through ball milling, the slurry after grinding is transported into autoclaved alkali leaching process for tungsten minerals decomposition with NaOH solution, alkali leaching residue and raw sodium tungstate solution are separated from slurry. The alkali leaching residue is ...
Wolframite Conversion in Treating a Mixed …
indicates that wolframite and scheelite are mutually disseminated and most scheelite grains with a width of less than 20 μm are much finer than the wolframite grains. This may be one reason why scheelite converts much more quickly than wolframite in the mixed concentrate. (a) Stirring speed (363 K, 3 mL/g, 450 g/L H 2 SO 4, –150 μm) (b) H
Recovery of tungsten by liquid–liquid extraction from a wolframite
Section snippets Experimental. A wolframite concentrate (61.5% WO 3) from Igarapé Manteiga was used in this study.Samples were milled to particle size < 0.106 mm. X-ray fluorescence data of this concentrate are shown in Table 1.Silicon is present in very low amounts (< 0.1%).Arsenic and molybdenum were not found and the main interfering …
Sustainable and efficient extracting of tin and tungsten …
Table 1 shows that the grade of wolframite-scheelite mixed ore is lower than the standard tungsten concentrate(WO 3 grade >65%), and the tin conten Effect of the calcium sulfate amount The effect of the calcium sulfate amount on the volatilization of tin and the leaching of tungsten was studied by varying the [CaSO 4 ]/[WO 3 ] molar ratio …
Wolframite concentrate conversion kinetics and mechanism …
The wolframite concentrate was provided by Jiangxi Tungsten Group Co., Ltd., China, and contained WO 3 69.50%, Fe 11.12%, and Mn 6.56% as the main …
IS 5632: Wolframite Concentrate : Bureau of Indian …
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Sustainable and Efficient Recovery of Tungsten …
The innovative technology of coleaching scheelite concentrates by a mixture of sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid is an environmentally friendly and low-cost technology. Although the world's …
A Fundamental Study on the Preparation of Sodium …
A commercial wolframite concentrate (particle size less than 0.075 mm) was used in the present study, and its dry composition is shown in Table 1. Analytical grades of sodium carbonate and silica were used for the decomposition of the wolframite. WO 3, FeO, and MnO are the major components of wolframite.
Leaching Behavior and Mechanism of Scheelite and …
mixed scheelite–wolframite concentrate by hydrochloric acid and the leaching mechanism of the two minerals were studied. The results indicated that the leaching eciency of scheelite was much higher than that of wolframite, and wolframite was dicult to be completely leached. It was found that the preferential leaching order of tungsten ...
Recovery of tungsten by liquid–liquid extraction from a wolframite
A wolframite concentrate (61.5% WO 3) from Igarapé Manteiga was used in this study.Samples were milled to particle size < 0.106 mm. X-ray fluorescence data of this concentrate are shown in Table 1.Silicon is present in very low amounts (< 0.1%).Arsenic and molybdenum were not found and the main interfering elements are aluminum, …
Pressure leaching of wolframite using a sulfuric-phosphoric …
On the other hand, the wolframite concentrate used in this work contains a certain amount of phosphorus and arsenic (as shown in Table 1), which can form soluble heteropoly acid with tungsten (for example [PW12O40]3−) [7,29–31]. In conclusion, the digestion of wolframite in HCl solution is a process of tungsten dissolution-H2WO4 …
Decomposing scheelite and scheelite-wolframite mixed concentrate …
Scheelite and scheelite-wolframite mixed concentrates with different grades were decomposed by caustic soda digestion, and the effects of caustic soda (NaOH) dosage, the ratio of water to ore and the stirring rate on tungsten recovery were studied. The results show that under the conditions that the ratio of water to ore is 0.8, stirring rate is 500 r · …