b Rhenium is retained by Dowex-1, when various combinations of solutions of HCI, HF, NH4F, and N H L l are passed through the resin bed to remove constituents of steels, high temperature alloys, refractory metals and alloys, also minerals and ores. The subsequent elution of rhenium with perchloric acid allows the gravimetric determination of rhenium as the metal, as the tetraphenylarsonium perrhenate, or the photometric determination using the thiocyanate complex.