Abstract: A process for the removal of dissolved metals and/or metalloids from an aqueous medium having a high content of salt wherein the aqueous medium in the presence of manganese (II) ions and an oxidation agent is passed through a particulate carrier material having a specified density, initial average grain size and flow rate, so as to fluidize carrier material particles in the aqueous medium, and whereby the coated material particles thereby formed are separated from the aqueous medium.

Abstract: A method for the removal of metal from a metal-containing aqueous medium wherein the aqueous medium is passed through a particulate carrier material in the presence or ferrous iron and an oxidant and at such velocity and in such direction that the carrier material particles are fluidised in the aqueous medium and wherein metal-containing coatings are formed on the surfaces of the carrier material particles and wherein the particles thus coated are separated from the aqueous medium. A method for the production of iron oxyhydroxide-containing adsorbent wherein the carrier material particles are fluidised in an aqueous medium in the presence ferrous iron and an oxidant so as to form iron oxyhydroxide coatings on the particles and wherein the particles thus formed are separated from the aqueous medium.