A process for economically separating and recovering valuable metal
components, with few kinds of chemicals being used, with no waste water
that causes environmental pollution being discharged, and also perfectly
no by-products being formed by means of simple steps. The process
includes a step of leaching a raw material containing at least vanadium
oxides and molybdenum oxides with ammonia-containing leaching water to
obtain a leached solution containing a vanadium compound and a molybdenum
compound, a step of adding ammonium orthomolybdate to the leached
solution to separate and recover the deposited ammonium metavanadate from
a first solution for separation, a step of adding a water-soluble alcohol
to the separated solution to separate and recover the deposited ammonium
orthomolybdate from a second solution for separation, a step of
distilling the second solution for separation to separate and recover the
water-soluble alcohol and a residue solution, a step of adding at least a
portion of the residue solution to the ammonia-containing leaching water
as the portion thereof, and a step of returning a portion of the
recovered ammonium orthomolybdate and a total of a recovered,
water-soluble alcohol to the system for reusing.