“…Therefore, in recent years, hydrometallurgical recovery of Mn from low-grade manganese ore is an encouraging technology because it meets the clean production and lowcarbon economy requirements. 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).…”