Telah dilakukan pemisahan logam tanah jarang Ce, La dan Nd dari konsentrat logam tanah jarang hasil olah pasir monasit. Pemisahan dilakukan melalui proses leaching menggunakan asam nitrat HNO3 dan oksidasi menggunakan asam nitrat berlebih. Selanjutnya dilakukan proses dijesti menggunakan natrium hidroksida NaOH. Penambahan amoniak NH4OH kedalam larutan hingga mencapai tingkat keasaman denga pH = 4.0 ditemukan efektif memisahkan serium Ce dan konsentrat lainnya. Endapan berwarna kuning yang terbentuk adalah endapan konsentrat Ce. Penambahan larutan amoniak NH4OH hingga pH = 8.0 untuk memisahkan konsentrat Nd dan filtratnya yaitu konsentrat La. Prosedur pengendapan bertingkat ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh hasil ekstraksi dalam bentuk senyawa oksidanya yaitu CeO2, La2O3 dan Nd2O3 dengan fraksi massa mencapai berturut-turut 48.3, 71.1 dan 54.8. Proses leaching dan presipitasi bertingkat yang diterapkan dalam penelitian ini memiliki tingkat perolehan yield masing-masing 80,38, 9,4 dan 10,21 untuk ketiga jenis oksida tersebut.

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Results of separation of rare earth metals consisted of Ce, La and Nd from monazite sands are reported. Separation was carried out through a leaching process employing a nitric acid HNO3 as the leaching agent and oxidized by an excess nitric acid. Furthermore, the process is done using sodium hydroxide NaOH. Additional treatment of digestion was applied to the solution using ammonia NH4OH until the acidity level of pH 4.0 was achieved and found to effective to separate the cerium Ce and other concentrates. The yellow precipitates which formed from this selective pH was Ce concentrates. The addition of an ammonia NH4OH into the solution with intended pH 8.0 has resulted in Nd concentrate as the precipitates and La in the filtrate. This multilevel precipitation procedure aims to obtain the extraction results in the form of the oxidation compounds CeO2, La2O3 and Nd2O3 with respective mass fraction reaching 48.3, 71.1 and 54.8. The leaching and precipitation processes which applied in this study has succeeded in obtaining the above mentioned rare earth oxides with yield level respectively 80.38, 9.4 and 10.21.