The invention discloses a method for recovering
rare earth from rare-earth-contained
phosphorite, which relates to the method for recovering the
rare earth from
phosphorite and is characterized by comprising the following steps: mixing a rare-earth-contained
phosphate concentrate with a
phosphoric acid solution for stirring reaction; immersing the
rare earth into the solution; carrying out
solid-liquid separation to obtain a rare-earth-contained
phosphoric acid solution; then, separating and recovering the rare earth from the rare-earth-contained
phosphoric acid solution through uniting one or several of an extraction method, an
ion exchange
adsorption method, a
precipitation method and a
crystallization method; and enabling the phosphoric acid solution after
slag is leached and the rare earth is separated and recovered to enter a wet-process phosphoric
acid production system to produce a phosphoric acid. In the method for recovering the rare earth from the rare-earth-contained
phosphorite, by taking the phosphoric acid solution as a leaching agent, the rare earth is extracted from the rare-earth-contained phosphorite without adding a surface
active agent, thereby, the quality of a phosphoric acid product is not influenced, and the rare-earth
leaching rate is about as high as 90 percent, and moreover, the leaching agent for leaching the rare earth is the phosphoric acid generated in the phosphoric
acid production course, and can also be circular dilute phosphoric acid, diluted phosphoric acid and the like generated in the phosphoric
acid production course. The method for recovering the rare earth from the rare-earth-contained phosphorite is tightly linked with a
sulfuric acid-method phosphoric acid production process.