Recovery of Rare Earths and Other Valuable Metals From Bauxite Residue ...
Therefore, the leaching process with dilute HNO 3 has been performed and optimized at a pilot scale for the recovery of scandium from bauxite residue . According to Petrakova et al., leaching with nitric acid could be a problem due to the absorption of nitrate ions on the residue, so that large volumes of water are needed for their removal [ 43 ].