“…Nowadays, various reducing agents are proving to effectively extract manganese from lowgrade manganese ore, including leaching with sulfur dioxide (Petrie, 1995;Naik et al, 2000;Naik et al, 2002;Naik et al, 2003;Zheng et al, 2007), pyrite (Kanungo, 1999;Vračar and Cerović, 2000), hydrogen peroxide (El Hazek et al, 2006;Nayl et al, 2011), ferrous ion (Zhang et al, 2015a), oxalic acid (Sahoo et al, 2001), organic reductants (Trifoni et al, 2000;Hariprasad et al, 2007;Kursunoglu and Kaya, 2013;Yi et al, 2015) and bio-reductions (Konishi et al, 1997;Acharya et al, 2003). Among these reduction processes, Mn reduction leaching by SO 2 has proven to be promising because of the advantages of rapid leaching rate (Grimanelis et al, 1992;Zhang and Cheng, 2007b), high leaching efficiency (Naik et al, 2000), and selectivity of Mn leaching (Khalafalla and Pahlman, 1981;Naik et al, 2000). Moreover, SO 2 gas can be generated from flue gas produced by metal metallurgy industrial fields, such as sintering plants, coal-grade stations, etc.…”