Recovery of uranium carbonato complex by ion flotation

摘要

A process for recovering uranium from an aqueous medium containing the uranium as a dissolved carbonato complex, which process comprises an ion flotation process comprising dissolving in the medium an agent which has surfactant properties and causes the uranium to enter the solid phase, bubbling a gas through the medium to float the solid phase uranium to a surface region of the medium, then separating the solid phase uranium from the bulk of medium.