Disclosed herein are a method of reductively bleaching a mineral slurry
comprising adding in the mineral slurry an effective amount of a
formamidine sulfinic acid (FAS) and an effective amount of a borohydride
to reductively bleach the mineral slurry, compositions comprising a
mineral slurry, a FAS, and a borohydride, and final products comprising a
mineral obtained by the method disclosed herein.