MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527059639 A) filed by Element 25 Limited, Perth, Australia, on June 21, for 'process for the extraction of manganese.'
Inventor(s) include Graham, Neil Jonathan; Lima, Leon Wesley; and Jayasekera, Sunil.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for the recovery of manganese from an acidic leach solution comprising manganese ions, the method comprising the steps of: (i.) subjecting the acidic leach solution to one or more preliminary impurity removal steps to remove a substantial proportion of target impurities, thereby producing a purified leach solution containing manganese; (ii.) subjecting the purified leach solution to a solvent extraction step, comprising contacting the purified leach solution with an organic solution of a carboxylic acid to extract manganese ions into the organic solution and separating a loaded organic solution from an aqueous raffinate; and (iii.) subjecting the loaded organic solution to a stripping step, comprising contacting the loaded organic solution with an acidic strip solution to produce a manganese strip liquor."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 23, 2023, under International application No.PCT/AU2023/051203.
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