The invention discloses a determination method for magnets in iron ore. The method comprises steps as follows: firstly, after magnetic iron ore is crushed, manual repeated magnetic separation is performed, moisture of samples obtained after separation is evaporated to dryness, magnetic iron is enabled to be separated from iron and other impurities, magnets obtained after separation are dissolved by hydrochloric acid, a solution is prepared, the iron element of the solution enters an atomizing system of an inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometer in a form of aerosol, a target substanceis gasified and ionized in a plasma torch, a characteristic spectral line is radiated under excitation, concentration of iron in the solution is calculated according to the Lambert-Beer law, and magnet content of the ore is calculated. The method has no special requirement for nature and composition of the ore, and magnetite, hematite, specularite, limonite, siderite and common metallic ore are all suitable for the method. The method further has the advantages of high analysis speed, low cost, high efficiency, simple and flexible technological process, low energy consumption and the like, andthe application prospect is quite broad.