Leaching of Manganese ore from Northeastern Vietnam by Reduction with SO2 gas in an H2SO4rich Solution Dao, Duy Anh 1Gier´e, Reto 1Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albertstrasse 23b, 79104 Freiburg The sulphur dioxide process was first patented by Van Arsdale and Mair in 1918 (Vedensky, 1946), but in recent time it