Recovery of americium from nitric acid solutions was studied by co-precipitation as hydroxide with various ions like calcium, ferric, nickel using sodium hydroxide and ammonium hydroxide. Studies were also carried out to recover americium using lanthanum fluoride and bismut h phosphate co-precipitation. All the methods are able to co-precipitate Am quantitatively. However, co-precipitation of Am with optimum co ncentration iron using  ammonia  is  found  to  be  better  from  nitric  acid  solutions  containing  large  concentrations  of  calcium  ions.  Approximately  2   g  of  Am  was recovered from 150 litres of solution batch wise using iron.