The invention provides a method for extracting
rhenium from
rhenium-rich concentrates. The method comprises the following steps of: mixing the
rhenium-rich concentrates with quick
lime,
grinding a mixture, feeding
oxygen-enriched air into the mixture, and
roasting the mixture at a temperature of 400-900 DEG C;
sizing and immersing the roasted mixture by using water, and filtering after the immersion is finished; adding an
impurity removing agent into the filtered liquid so as to remove
calcium and trace heavy
metal ions; filtering after removing impurities; and carrying out
ion exchange process on the filtered liquid, which is subjected to
impurity removal and filtering, through anion exchange resin, obtaining
ammonium rhenate solution after
desorption, and obtaining
ammonium perrhenate through reconcentration and
crystallization. According to the method provided by the invention, quick
lime oxygen-enriched
roasting and
water immersion are used, so that the operations of decoppering,
arsenic removal and desulfuration are carried out, therefore rhenium,
arsenic and
sulfur are oxidized sufficiently under the
oxygen enrichment condition; the rhenium,
arsenic and
sulfur are combined with
calcium oxide, so that insoluble substances are generated; the effects of removing
copper, arsenic and
sulfur are more thorough in the
water immersion condition, and the
disadvantage that the
calcium content is high in the quick
lime roasting and
water immersion technology is solved through using the
impurity removing agent to remove impurities; and the
recovery rate of rhenium is high, so that the method provided by the invention is favorable to industrialized application.