A process for mutual separation of platinum group metals (PGM), wherein
highly stable compounds and steps are used to efficiently remove impurity
elements while preventing increase of impurity content relative to that
of the PGM in the mother liquor and also preventing decomposition of a
chloro complex, and palladium, platinum, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium
are separated mutually in such a way that each of the separated PGM has a
sufficient purity to be a commercial product.A process for mutual
separation of PGM, comprising the first step for leaching a raw material
containing PGM and impurity elements, second step for removing the
impurity elements from the leach liquor by solvent extraction, third step
for recovering palladium from the raffinate, fourth step for removing
cationic impurity elements from the raffinate by solvent extraction,
fifth step for recovering platinum from the raffinate by hydrolysis,
sixth step for recovering ruthenium from the precipitate by leaching, and
seventh step for recovering iridium by solvent extraction to prepare the
stripping liquor containing iridium and raffinate containing rhodium.