Recovery of light rare earth elements by leaching and
The phosphate production generates also mining wastes, which contain many recoverable elements, including rare earth elements (REEs) (Alonso et al., 2012; Kechiched et al., 2018). REEs contain a total of 17 elements, 15 lanthanides belonging to the block f ( 57 La, 58 Ce, 59 Pr, 60 Nd, 62 Sm, 63 Eu, 64 Gd, 65 Tb, 66 Dy, 67 Ho, 68 Er, 69 Tm, 70 Yb, and 71 Lu).