SOME TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HYDROMETALLURGICAL PROCESSING OF PEROVSKITE CONCENTRATE

With one of the world’s largest titanium raw material bases, Russia remains an exporter of an important strategic raw material. The Kola Peninsula is a region where deposits have been discovered that contain, in addition to titanium, rare and rare-earth metals so essential for the development of modern industries. This paper presents hydrometallurgical processing schemes, which have potential for industrial implementation using titanium-calcium raw materials of the Kola Peninsula by the example of perovskite concentrate.

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