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What happens to vanadium after uranium is removed from a carnotite leachate?
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After uranium is extracted from the carnotite leachate, the vanadium remains in the raffinate. This raffinate is then fed into a second solvent extraction circuit where the vanadium is extracted into an organic phase. Subsequently, it is stripped using a 10 percent soda ash solution and precipitated with ammonium sulfate. The resulting ammonium metavanadate precipitate is then filtered, dried, and calcined to produce vanadium pentoxide ().1