“…But in this case after crossing through first aqueous contact, organic extractant loses its saponified value, which stops further extraction of metal ions in the remaining steps. Under metal ion extraction studies many authors have proposed utilization of bifunctional extractants or mixed ionic extractants such as, for iron (Davis and Grinnstead, 1970;Grinstead et al, 1969;Hirato et al, 1992;Kholkin et al, 1999, andTait, 1993), zinc (Fu et al, 2010;Hoh et al, 1982;Preston, and duPreez, 1996), cobalt (Cerpa and Alguacil, 2004;Cheng, 2006;Tait, 1993a), copper (Belkhouche and Didi, 2005;Fouad, 2009;Pranolo et al, 2010), nickel (Bacon and Mihaylov, 2002;Cheng, 2006;Preston and duPreez, 2000), gold (Alguacil, 1999;Alguacil, and Alonso, 2004) etc. Further references include utilization of mixtures of organophosphorus acids with amines (Bourget et al, 2005;Jakovljevic et al, 2004;Shuqiu et al, 1989;Tait, 1993aTait, , 1993b.…”