“…As the manganese ore with Mn/Fe is lower than 3, which is called high-iron manganese oxide ore, it cannot be directly used as a raw material for ferromanganese production (Gao et al, 2012). As manganese dioxide, the main content of manganese oxide ore, is insoluble in dilute sulfuric acid and alkaline media, so a reduction roasting process must be adopted to convert tetravalent Mn to bivalent forms first by carbon/carbon monoxide (Gao et al, 2012;Ye et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2015b), and sulfur/ sulfur dioxide (Abou-El-Sherbini 2002; You et al, 2015) at 700-900°C, then followed by sulfuric acid leaching for the formation of manganese sulfate product (Zhang et al, 2013;You et al, 2015). However, the main problems with the reduction roasting process are the low efficiency of recovery of Mn, high investment, intensive energy consumption and operating cost and CO 2 , SO x , a great amount of smoke dust are released during the calcination process, which will lead to secondary pollution (Zhang and Cheng, 2007a).…”