
Alkali digestion of wolframite ore. the processing of the tungsten ore wolframite starts with alkali (naoh) digestion or by alkali (na 2 co 3) roasting, the alkali roasting (na 2 co 3) requires temperature range of 800–900 c whereas digestion with naoh is done at comparatively lower temperature range of 190–325 c under high pressure of 100–240 bar both the.