Scandium was extracted at pH 5.0 from 0.01 M malonic acid on silica gel column impregnated with Amberlite LA-1. Nickel, zinc, cadmium, mercury, lead, tin, aluminium, and lanthanum in binary mixtures because they could not form malonato complexes. It was separated by the process of selective elution from elements such as zirconium, thorium, uranium, iron(III), gallium, indium, cerium(III), litanium by exploiting difference in stability of malonato complexes. Scandium was separated from multicomponent mixture containing yttrium, titanium, zironium, thorium, uranium and aluminium by a process of selective sorbtion and selective elution.