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• This invention relates to a process for facilitating the removal of impurities, especially but not only radionuclides such as uranium and thorium and their radionuclide daughters, from titaniferous materials, and is concerned in particular embodiments with the removal of impurities, including especially uranium and thorium, from products formed from weathered or "altered" ilmenite.
• Ilmenite (FeTiO 3 ) and rutile (TiO 2 ) are the major, commercially-important, mineral feedstocks for titanium metal and titanium dioxide production and generally occur together in nature as components of "mineral sands" or “heavy minerals", along with zircon (ZrSiO 4 ) and monazite ((Ce, La, Th)PO 4 ).
• Natural weathering of ilmenite results in partial oxidation of the iron, originally present in ilmenite in the ferrous state (Fe 2+ ), to ferric iron (Fe 3+ ). To maintain electrical neutrality, some of the oxidised iron must be removed from the ilmenite lattice. This results in a more porous structure with a higher titanium (lower iron) content.
• Such weathered materials are known as "altered" ilmenites and may have TiO 2 contents in excess of 60% TiO 2 , compared with 52.7%
• TiO 2 in stoichiometric (unaltered) ilmenite As weathering, or alteration, of the ilmenite proceeds, impurities such as alumino-silicates (clays) are often incorporated into the porous structure as discrete, small grains that reside in the pores of the altered ilmenite. It appears that uranium and thorium can also be incorporated into the ilmenite during this process.
• impurities such as alumino-silicates (clays) are often incorporated into the porous structure as discrete, small grains that reside in the pores of the altered ilmenite. It appears that uranium and thorium can also be incorporated into the ilmenite during this process.
• TiO 2 titanium dioxide
• the alternative process- the so-called chloride route - involves reaction with chlorine to produce volatile titanium tetrachloride (TiCl 4 ) and subsequent conversion to TiO 2 .
• the chloride route is capable of handling feedstocks, such as rutile, which are high in TiO 2 content and low in iron and other impurities. Consequently the chloride-route presents fewer environmental problems and has become the preferred method for TiO 2 pigment production. Natural rutile supplies are insufficient to meet the world demands of the chloride-route. Thus, there is an increasing need to convert the more-plentiful ilmenites and altered ilmenites (typically 45 to 65% TiO 2 ) to synthetic rutile (containing over 90% TiO 2 ). A number of different processes have been developed to upgrade ilmenite to synthetic rutile, the most widely used, commercially, being the Becher process.
• the Becher process involves the following main stages.
• Aqueous oxidation (known as aeration) of the reduced ilmenite to convert the metallic iron to iron oxide particles discrete from the TiO 2 -rich mineral particles.
• ilmenite concentrates contain low levels of thorium due to monazite contamination. It is not a purpose of this invention, in its application to radionuclide impurities, to remove macroscopic monazite grains from titaniferous materials, but rather to remove the microscopic uranium and thorium originally incorporated into the ilmenite grains during the weathering process.
• US Patents 5,011,666 and 5,085,837 disclose a process for removing thorium and uranium, and other impurities, from TiO 2 ore by subjecting the ore to two or more leaching treatments, the said leaching treatments alternating between the use of an aqueous solution of mineral acid, preferably hydrochloric acid, and an aqueous solution of an alkali metal carbonate, hydroxide or mixtures thereof, most preferably sodium hydroxide.
• the acid leach occurs first in the claims of US 5,011,666, and second in US 5,085,837.
• the leaches may be separated by an intervening filtration and wash.
• Example III in each patent discloses a three-step leach with hydrochloric acid, then sodium hydroxide, then hydrochloric acid.
• the NaOH leach is exemplified at concentrations of 20 and 30% (5M and 7.5M respectively), and at a temperature of 160°C to 210°C and 8 to 18 atm pressure. These are very high pressures which we consider would be very expensive and perhaps even technically not feasible.
• the HCl acid leaches are exemplified at 20% (5.5M). Roasting at a temperature of less than about 700°C prior to the leaching treatment is proposed for some ores.
• Analytical data in the patent is considered to be by conventional analytical methods such as x-ray fluorescence spectrometry.
• Radionuclide measuring techniques (such as gamma-spectroscopy) are required to measure the concentrations of the daughter isotopes.
• the present applicant's prior Australian patent application 14981/92 discloses a process for facilitating removal of radionuclides from titaniferous material in which the latter is subjected to a treatment with an aqueous solution of an alkali metal oxide or hydroxide at a solution temperature preferably no greater than 125°C, and thereafter leached with mineral acid, preferably sulphuric acid. It was found that this process did result in the recovery of significant thorium but did not correspondingly reduce radioactivity.
• aughters in particular 228 Ra and 228 Th, are not removed to the same extent. As a consequence the radioactivity levels of the leached materials are higher than expected from the assay value for the parent isotope and may be too high to meet the radioactivity limit for the product.
• International Patent Publication WO94/03647 teaches that removal of the parent thorium isotope and its radionuclide daughters occur together when the material is heated (roasted) at a temperature of 1000°C prior to leaching but then the amount of thorium removed is less than that achieved without heating or after heating at up to 500°C.
• US Patent 5,181,956 discloses an acid leaching step to remove impurities, including uranium and thorium, from titaniferous ores comprising contacting the ore with an aqueous solution of a mineral acid having a concentration of about 3-30 wt% at a temperature of about 160-300°C.
• aqueous solution of a mineral acid having a concentration of about 3-30 wt% at a temperature of about 160-300°C.
• US patent 5,181,956 discloses that the ore may be given a reductive roast, preferably at 1100-1300°C, before leaching. No examples of the effect of a reductive roast prior to leaching on the removal of thorium are given in US Patent 5,181,956. While the parent thorium and radionuclide daughters can be expected to be removed to a similar extent after such a reductive roast, current work, as described in examples to this patent, have shown that the extent to which the parent isotope is removed is much less than when the ore is leached without the reductive roast before leaching.
• Australian patent 599090 discloses a process for purifying TiO 2 ore in which the ore is roasted, eg at 600°C to 1100°C, with an alkali metal compound, which may be inter alia a carbonate or hydroxide, to convert impurities including thorium and uranium into an acid soluble form, which is then leached with a solution of a non-sulphuric mineral acid, eg hydrochloric acid.
• an alkali metal compound which may be inter alia a carbonate or hydroxide
• the aforementioned International Patent Publication WO94/03647 further discloses a process for facilitating the removal of impurities, including radionuclides, from titaniferous material which comprises treating the titaniferous material to cause aggregation or concentration of the radionuclides to an extent effective to enhance the accessibility of the radionuclides to subsequent removal.
• the radionuclides may be uranium and/or thorium and/or one or more of their radionuclide daughters.
• the treatment preferably includes heating the titaniferous material while contacting it with one or more reagents.
• Particularly effective reagents, in that they achieved optimum incorporation of the radionuclides include alkali and alkaline earth borates.
• the process optionally includes treatment of the heated treated titaniferous material directly with an acid leach, or with an acid leach after aeration, to dissolve the phase incorporating the impurities including the radionuclides and thereby to extract them from the titaniferous material.
• the titaniferous material used in the process may be, eg, ilmenite or altered ilmenite, reduced ilmenite, or synthetic rutile.
• the reagents selected for the treatment are known to melt as a result of a heat treatment and are glass forming agents. They form a liquid phase which disperses onto the surfaces of the titaniferous material, and in so doing, collects and concentrates the impurities including radionuclides and/or one or more daughters.
• the phase containing the radionuclides is thought likely to form a glassy phase containing the radionuclides. From the known solubility of glasses expected to form in the system it is anticipated that the glassy phase would be dissolved during the acid leach.
• the acid leaches disclosed in the international application are a single hydrochloric acid leach of a least 0.05M, or a sulphuric acid leach followed by a hydrochloric acid leach. In some examples, the single hydrochloric acid leach contains sodium fluoride.
• a difficulty encountered with the leaching systems disclosed in WO94/03647 is that removal of the radium, a radionuclide decay product or daughter of thorium, tends to be less effective than desired, at least for economically optimum strengths of hydrochloric acid. It is an object of the present invention, in its application to the removal of radionuclide impurities, to at least in part alleviate this problem.
• the phase containing the radionuclides formed from titaniferous material according to WO94/03647 can be leached and extracted from the material by leaching systems other than those disclosed previously. These new systems are also likely to be more cost-effective as a result of the lower reagent concentrations generally required for a given level of impurity, especially radionuclide, removal.
• titaniferous material containing one or more impurities in a form which is highly soluble in acid is in turn leached with a sulphuric acid solution and with a hydrochloric acid solution in either order, and wherein the hydrochloric acid leach is augmented by one or more of the following:
• the material is in turn leached with a mineral acid solution and with a hydrochloric acid solution in either order, wherein the hydrochloric acid leach is augmented by a pre-treatment with a solution of an effective amount of an alkali metal hydroxide at a concentration no greater than 0.01M, preferably in the range 0.005 to 0.01M, a temperature in the range ambient to 80°C, and a pressure in the range 1 to 5 atmospheres;
• sulphuric acid leach may either precede the carbonate or hydroxide pre-treatment or follow the hydrochloric acid leach of the pre-treated titaniferous material.
• pre-treatment with hydroxide is usually the preferred approach, but this may depend on the overall conditions and on the impurities of particular interest.
• the titaniferous material is selected from the group including ilmenite, altered ilmenite, reduced ilmenite and synthetic rutile.
• the synthetic rutile may be in the form of aerated product formed by treatment of ilmenite, which treatment includes reduction of iron therein largely to metallic iron and then aqueous oxidation of the metallic iron to form a separable iron oxide.
• the form of the impurities which is highly soluble in acid may be a phase in which the impurities have been incorporated, for example by the process disclosed in WO94/03647 (PCT/AU93/00381).
• the elevated temperature is preferably in the range 900 to 1200°C, more preferably 1050°C to 1200°C.
• Preferred such reagents include glass forming reagents, especially borates such as alkali metal and alkaline earth metal borates.
• a reagent mixture may be utilised containing two or more such reagents.
• the impurities removed may be one or more of the group consisting of silicon and/or silica, aluminium and/or alumina, manganese, residual iron, calcium, thorium and uranium.
• the process is especially useful in the case where the impurities removed include radionuclides such as uranium, thorium and one or more of their radionuclide daughters including radium, for example thorium as 232 Th and its daughters 228 Th and 228 Ra.
• the titaniferous material may be treated aerated product (as hereinbefore defined) which has been produced from a Becher process in which the reduction step (1) includes treatment in accordance with a process as disclosed in WO94/03647, eg addition of a reagent to form a phase incorporating impurities including radionuclides for said leaching in accordance with the invention.
• Preferred reagents include sodium chloride as the chloride salt, sodium carbonate as the alkali metal carbonate, and sodium hydroxide as the alkali metal hydroxide.
• the sulphuric acid may be between 0.1M and 5M, the hydrochloric acid between 0.01 and 3M, the sodium chloride between 0.05 and 5M, the sodium carbonate between 0.01 and 1M, and the sodium hydroxide between 0.001 and 10M, more preferably no greater than 1M. These concentrations refer to the actual aqueous solution which is contacted with the titaniferous material.
• radionuclide especially radium, removal and accordingly radioactivity reduction
• hydrochloric acid concentration and that specific levels of radionuclide removal and radioactivity reduction can therefore be achieved more economically.
• added chloride or pre-treatment with carbonate or hydroxide may be effective in selectively taking up the radium as acid soluble radium chloride or by forming an acid soluble carbonate or acid soluble oxide/hydroxide, respectively.
• the treatment may be carried out with suspensions of the treated titaniferous material at a solids pulp density of between 5 and 70 wt% solids, a temperature ambient to 95°C, a pressure from 1 to 5 atmospheres and for up to 4 hours.
• the preferred leaching conditions for the sulphuric acid leach are at temperatures up to 80°C and a pressure of 1 to 5 atmospheres and for up to 2 hours.
• the preferred conditions for the hydrochloric acid leach are at temperatures of up to 60°C, a pressure of 1 to 5 atmospheres and leach times of 2 hours, and more preferably greater than 2 minutes but less than 30 minutes at a solids pulp density of 30 wt% solids or higher.
• the preferred conditions for the sodium hydroxide leach are a temperature in the range ambient up to 80°C, a pressure of 1 to 5 atmospheres, and a leach time up to two hours.
• the sulphuric acid dissolves thorium and other impurity elements including residual iron (primarily ferrous or ferric but some metallic), but not radium, from the aerated product and that the subsequent washing and sodium hydroxide treatment remove sulphate salts (perhaps by deprotonation) from the sulphuric acid leach residue. These sulphate salts precipitate during the sulphuric acid leach.
• the hydrochloric acid leach is preferably limited to a time, determined by observation, beyond which radium removal in the leach is actually diminished. This preferred maximum time will vary according to other conditions but may typically be in the range 10 to 30 minutes.
• Leaching with sulphuric acid followed by a treatment with sodium hydroxide and a leach with hydrochloric acid achieves the best removal of thorium, radium and the impurity elements.
• the advantage of this system over the single sulphuric acid or hydrochloric acid leaches is that a higher quality product is obtained.
• the lower hydrochloric acid concentration required after the sulphuric acid leach and sodium hydroxide treatment means that this system is commercially economic and it is considered superior to the single leaching systems specified in the International Patent Publication WO94/03647 (PCT/AU93/00381).
• the aerated products were leached with sulphuric acid (0.5M) at 25 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes followed by treatment with sodium carbonate (0.1M) at 50 wt% solids and 80°C for 60 minutes and then a leach with hydrochloric acid (0.2M) at 25 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes. Between each step the solids were washed with water and dried.
• sulphuric acid 0.5M
• sodium carbonate 0.1M
• hydrochloric acid 0.2M
• the aerated products were leached with sulphuric acid (1.6M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 or 120 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.01M) at 40 wt% solids and 25°C for 30 or 60 minutes and then leached with hydrochloric acid (0.4M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes. Between each step the solids were washed with water.
• Eneabba North ilmenite as feedstock was reduced in accordance with the Becher process employing a commercial-size rotary reduction kiln measuring 27.4 m long, refractory lined to give an internal diameter of 2.0 m.
• a calcium borate as the mineral colemanite was added to the kiln.
• the reduced ilmenite produced was aerated in a 160 litre pilot plant aerator and the oxide produced was removed to obtain the aerated product which was leached.
• the aerated product was leached with sulphuric acid (2.0M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes followed by a leach with hydrochloric acid (0.4M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes.
• the solids were washed with water between leaches.
• a separate sample of the aerated product was also leached with sulphuric acid (1.6M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.01M) at 40 wt% solids and 25°C for 30 minutes and then a leach with hydrochloric acid (0.2M) at 40 wt% solids and 30°C for 60 minutes. Between each step the solids were washed with water and dried.
• the aerated products were leached with sulphuric acid (1.5M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 120 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.01M) at 40 wt% solids and 25°C for 30 minutes and then leached with hydrochloric acid (0.1 or 0.2M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 10 minutes. Between each step the solids were washed with water.
• sulphuric acid 1.5M
• sodium hydroxide 0.01M
• hydrochloric acid 0.1 or 0.2M
• Eneabba North ilmenite as feedstock was reduced in accordance with the Becher process employing a commercial-size rotary reduction kiln measuring 27.4 m long, refractory lined to give an internal diameter of 2.0 m.
• different calcium borate minerals the same as those employed in Example 6, were added to the kiln during successive time periods.
• the reduced ilmenite produced during the first period was aerated in a 160 litre pilot plant aerator, while the reduced ilmenite produced during the second period was aerated in a 30 litre laboratory aerator.
• the oxide produced was removed to obtain the aerated products which were leached.
• the aerated products were leached with sulphuric acid (1.6 or 1.25M, respectively) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.01M) at 40 wt% solids and 25°C for 30 minutes and then leached with hydrochloric acid (0.2M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 10 minutes. Between each step the solids were washed with water.
• sulphuric acid 1.6 or 1.25M, respectively
• Eneabba North ilmenite as feedstock was reduced in accordance with the Becher process employing a commercial-size rotary reduction kiln measuring 27.4 m long, refractory lined to give an internal diameter of 2.0 m. During the reduction a calcium borate mineral was added. The reduced ilmenite produced was aerated in a 60 cubic metre plant aerator and the oxide produced was removed to obtain the aerated product which was leached.
• Samples of the aerated product were leached with sulphuric acid (0.6 or 1.0M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 120 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.03M) at 40 wt% solids and 25°C for 30 minutes and then leached with hydrochloric acid (0.1 or 0.4M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 5 or 30 minutes. Between each step the solids were washed with water.
• sulphuric acid 0.6 or 1.0M
• Eneabba North ilmenite as feedstock was reduced in accordance with the Becher process employing a commercial-size rotary reduction kiln measuring 27.4 m long, refractory lined to give an internal diameter of 2.0 m.
• a calcium borate was added to the kiln during each of two periods.
• the reduced ilmenite produced during the first period was aerated in a 160 litre pilot plant aerator, while the reduced ilmenite produced in the second period was aerated in a 60 cubic metre plant aerator.
• the oxide produced was removed to obtain the aerated products which were leached.
• the aerated product from RI from the first period was leached with sulphuric acid (1.6M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 60 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.01M) at 40 wt% solids and 25°C for 30 minutes and then leached with hydrochloric acid (0.2M) at 40 wt% solids and 30°C for 2, 5, 10, 60 and 120 minutes. Between each step the solids were washed with water.
• the aerated product from RI from the second period was leached at 15 wt% solids, instead of 40 wt% solids, with sulphuric acid (1.0M) at 60°C for 120 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.03M) at 25°C for 30 minutes and then leached with hydrochloric acid (0.05M) at 30°C for 10 and 120 minutes, and 24 hours. Between each step the solids were washed with water. (0.05M hydrochloric acid was used so that the amount of acid to weight of solids was the same as for a 40 wt% solids leach.)
• the detrimental effect of sulphate ions in the hydrochloric acid leach on radium removal is shown in this example.
• the impurity sulphate ions may be present as a result of inefficient washing after the sulphuric acid leach or the sodium hydroxide treatment or be present in the water used to make up the hydrochloric acid.
• Samples of the aerated product from RI were leached with sulphuric acid (1.25M) at 40 wt% solids and 60°C for 120 minutes followed by treatment with sodium hydroxide (0.01M) at 40 wt% solids and 25°C for 30 minutes and then leached with hydrochloric acid (0.2M) at 40 wt% solids and 30°C for 10, or 30 minutes.
• the hydrochloric acid leaches were carried out with additions of sodium sulphate corresponding to 0, 50 or 100 ppm SO4 in the leach liquor. Between each step the solids were washed with water.

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