The recovery of vanadium from a black shale from Guizhou Province of China was performed using a three-step process, which consists of a leaching step in the H2SO4-HF-NaClO system under atmospheric pressure,the vanadium separation from leachate by solvent extraction and stripping,followed by precipitation of ammonium vanadate and thermal decomposition.Under the optimum leaching conditions of 100 g/L sulfuric,15 g/L hydrofluoric acid,1.5 g/L NaClO,6 h leaching at 90℃and oxygen partial pressure of 1 200 kPa,and the liquid-to-solid ratio of 2,about 91%vanadium extraction is achieved.The vanadium extraction yields of solvent and stripping are 99.83%and 97.66%when using 10%(volume fraction)P204,5%TBP and 85%sulfonated berosene as organic phase and 15%(mass fraction)sulphuric acid as stripping agent.After thermal decomposition the purity of powder vanadium pentoxide products is 99.18%and the overall vanadium recovery is over 81%in the whole process.