“…Depending on the mineral composition of uranium-bearing ores, leaching procedures may be carried out using an alkaline or an acidic route (Kim et al, 2014;Abdel Wahab et al, 2019), However, in most cases, U is extracted by acidic leaching (Abu Elatta et al, 2018;Xu et al, 2019) The acid way is usually considered non-selective and produces multi-metal solutions such as thorium, rare earth elements (REE), in addition to uranium. The treatment of acidic leach solution may involve a wide range of techniques including selective precipitations (Bhowmik et al, 2009 andEl-Ansary et al, 2018), solvent extraction (Singh andGupta 2008, Zhu et al, 2013;Avelar et al, 2017;Abdoul-Rachid, 2018 andAbdellah, 2020), and ion exchange resins (Danko et al, 2017;Abdel Aal and Abdel Samad, 2019).…”