A process for silver extraction by acidifying
calcination and leaching of lead silver
slag comprises the following steps of: water leaching, that is, leaching the lead silver
slag with water to remove and separate soluble
zinc sulfates, recovering the
leachate, and keeping the leaching residues in reserve; acidifying
calcination, that is, adding a mixture of the leaching residues and
sulfuric acid into a stirring groove, stirring uniformly, placing the mixture in a fully-closed
rotary kiln, slowly cooling to
room temperature to obtain calcine in reserve;
water washing, that is, putting the calcine after acidifying
calcination and water in a leaching groove, heating and stirring, recovering the filtrate, and keeping the filtering residues in reserve; and finally
ammonia leaching and silverextraction. The invention adopts processes of fire method preprocessing and wet method leaching, that is, separating
zinc sulfate by water leaching, recovering silver by acidifying calcination and
ammonia leaching, and returning
ammonia leaching residues to
system ingredients; valuable components such as silver,
zinc, lead and the like are recovered comprehensively; the purposes of effective
resource utilization, energy saving, and
pollution prevention are reached; optimal technical and economic effect is obtained; and the invention has low implementation cost and reliable technology, has a
metal silver
leaching rate of up to above 80%, and a
metal silver
recovery rate of about 72%.