The invention relates to a process for producing
scandium oxide by comprehensively recovering
bauxite. According to the method,
scandium compounds in the
red mud are activated through bubbling treatment, the pH value of a
liquid phase is smaller than or equal to 10.5, after multi-stage
filtration, insoluble residues are leached through a
sodium carbonate-
sodium bicarbonate solution, and a
scandium-containing
sodium carbonate-
sodium bicarbonate solution is obtained; after filtering the obtained solution, mixing a scandium-containing alkaline
aluminate solution with a scandium-containing
sodium carbonate-
sodium bicarbonate solution to prepare a scandium-containing
hydrolysis concentrate; carrying out two-stage
sulfuric acid leaching on the filtered scandium-containing
hydrolysis concentrate; the scandium-containing
sulfuric acid solutions obtained after two-stage leaching are mixed, alkali is added to adjust the pH to 4.5-5.5, and scandium
sulfate without
impurity elements is precipitated; then treating with caustic alkali until the pH is not more than 5.6, and carrying out selective
precipitation of scandium; treating scandium
sulfate with a
sulfuric acid solution to obtain basic scandium
sulfate; treating the obtained basic scandium sulfate with
oxalic acid to convert the basic scandium sulfate into scandium
oxalate; filtering the obtained scandium
oxalate precipitate; and calcining scandium
oxalate to remove carbon and obtain
scandium oxide, wherein the content of Sc2O3 in the calcined product is at least 99.0
mass percent.