“…Cao et al (2009) used a mixture of 20% trioctyl amine (TOA) and 30% tributyl phosphate (TBP) to selectively extract 97% Re and 1.7% Mo from a (15 g/L Mo + 0.1 g/L Re) solution, leaving 4 mg/L Re in the raffinate. Other extractants were also used, including 2,20-(imino)bis(N,N0-dioctylacetamide) (IDOA), di-isododecylamine (DIDA), tri-alkyl (C8-10) amine (Zagorodnyaya et al, 2010), TOA (Ali et al, 2012;Iatsenko Gerhardt et al, 2001;Lou et al, 2010), and tributyl phosphate, TBP (Alamdari et al, 2012;Hydrometallurgy 156 (2015) …”