A rare earth-bearing apatite assaying 2. 48% REO and 19. 73% P2 O5 is studied in this paper. A combined beneficiation-metallurgy process is developed to recover rare earth and phosphorus from the apatite. Firstly,the process of flotation-magnetic separation is conducted to obtain a mixed rare earth-phosphorus concentrate. Then two technical routes of chemical beneficiation-acidification-water leaching-precipitating rare earth and decalcification-ammonia neutralization-evaporation and granulation are adopted...