US Patent Issued to Baotou Research Institute of Rare Earths on Aug. 25 for "Method for recycling iron ore tailing and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,113, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Baotou Research Institute of Rare Earths (Baotou, China).

"Method for recycling iron ore tailing and use thereof" was invented by Chunlei Guo (Baotou, China), Na Li (Baotou, China), Yufang Qin (Baotou, China), Biao Chen (Baotou, China) and Yanjiang Liu (Baotou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method for recycling an iron ore tailing and use thereof. The method includes: 1) conditioning the iron ore tailing to obtain a first slurry, adding water glass and a sodium oleate-associated substance sequentially to the first slurry to obtain a first mixture, and subjecting the first...