To provide a non-contact type continuous magnetic separation apparatus capable of separating a fine particle dispersed in a dispersion with a non-contact, continuous way and a high separating rate, and its separation method.

Regions zoned in the longitudinal direction of a flow path with respect to a magnitude of a magnetic flux density by a micrometer order are formed by disposing linear ferromagnetic bodies having a width of a micrometer order in the longitudinal direction of the flow path and applying a magnetic field in the width direction of the flow path. The fine particle to be separated flows in based on its own magnetic susceptibility as selecting a flow path region zoned by the magnetic flux density formed in the flow path by continuously delivering the dispersion with a pressure to the flow path. The fine particle is recovered by appropriately dividing a fine particle flow thus formed.

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