Bio- and mineral acid leaching of rare earth elements from synthetic phosphogypsum

Zhichao Hu1, Paul Antonick1, Yoshiko Fujita2, David W Reed2, Richard Riman1, Ali Eslamimanesh3, Gaurav Das3, Andre Anderko3, Lili Wu4, Radha Shivaramaiah4 and Alexandra Navrotsky4, (1)Rutgers University, Materials Science and Engineering, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (2)Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States, (3)OLI Systems, Inc., Cedar Knolls, NJ, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory and NEAT ORU, Davis, CA, United States