Abstract: Method for extracting vanadium-values from vanadium-bearing iron ores and/or iron ore concentrates including mixing the iron ores and/or iron ore concentrates with a calcium containing material, roasting the mix in an oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature for a time to produce calcium vanadates, comminuting the roasted mix and leaching the comminuted roasted mix in an aqueous solution containing carbonate or bicarbonate compounds to produce vanadates which are readily soluble in the aqueous leaching solution and simultaneously producing substantially insoluble calcium carbonate or calcium bicarbonate which remains as part of the undissolved residue containing iron-values. The vanadate-rich aqueous leaching solution is separated from the undissolved residue containing iron-values and treated by known methods to recover the vanadium-values. The undissolved residue can be processed to recover the iron-values.