Magnesium values are leached from a fragmented mass containing combusted oil shale particles. Magnesium is leached selectively with respect to calcium compounds and silicates with aqueous solutions of a mixture of purgeable, acid-forming gases such as carbon dioxide with a minor proportion of sulfur dioxide. A two-stage leaching process can employ leachant with dissolved carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in a first stage and with a carbon dioxide containing solution in the substantial absence of sulfur dioxide in the second stage. An enriched solution containing magnesium values is withdrawn from the fragmented mass and magnesia is recovered from such enriched solution. In one embodiment a fragmented permeable mass of formation particles containing oil shale and carbonates of calcium and magnesium is formed in an in situ oil shale retort. A combustion zone is advanced through the fragmented mass, whereby kerogen in oil shale in the fragmented mass is decomposed in a retorting zone on the advancing side of the combustion zone to produce gaseous and liquid products including shale oil, and particles containing retorted oil shale are combusted for converting magnesium values to more leachable form such as magnesium oxide. Such a process is also used for leaching combusted oil shale from above ground retorting and combustion.
镁的价值从含有燃烧页岩颗粒的碎片质量中被浸出。
镁被有选择性地浸出,相对于
钙化合物和
硅酸盐,使用一种混合的可净化、酸性气体的
水溶液,例如
二氧化碳和少量的
二氧化硫。两阶段浸出过程可以在第一阶段使用溶解的
二氧化碳和
二氧化硫的浸出剂,在第二阶段使用含有
二氧化碳的溶液,基本上不含
二氧化硫。从碎片质量中提取含有
镁价值的富集溶液,并从这样的富集溶液中回收
氧化镁。在一种实施例中,形成了一个碎裂渗透的地层颗粒质量,其中包含页岩和
钙镁碳酸盐,在原位的页岩加热炉中。通过碎片质量中的燃烧区域推进,使得碎片质量中的页岩在炼制区域中分解,产生包括页岩油的气体和液体产品,然后燃烧含有炼制过的页岩的颗粒,以将
镁价值转化为更易浸出的形式,例如
氧化镁。这样的过程也用于从地面炼制和燃烧的燃烧页岩中浸出。