The invention discloses a method for preparing sintered ceramsite by using 
phosphate tailings as a main 
raw material. The method comprises the following steps of crushing the 
phosphate tailings and steel 
slag, then adding 
pulverized fuel ash into an obtained first mixture, and afterwards, adding water into an obtained second mixture to carry out 
wet grinding, so as to obtain 
slurry of which the median particle size is less than 5 microns; adding a binder and carbon 
powder into the 
slurry, putting an obtained third mixture into a granulator to obtain a raw-material ball; naturally 
drying the raw-material ball for 6h to 8h at a 
room temperature, placing the raw-material ball in an 
electric heating constant-temperature blast 
drying box, and carrying out constant-temperature 
drying and aging for 8h to 10h, so as to obtain a semi-finished-product ball; placing the semi-finished-product ball at a preheating zone of a 
rotary kiln, and preheating the semi-finished-product ball for 30min to 40min at 600 to 850 DEG C, so as to obtain a finished-product ball; placing the finished-product ball at a high-temperature zone of the 
rotary kiln, calcining the finished-product ball at 1,140 to 1,250 DEG C for 40min to 80min, and then naturally cooling the finished-product ball to the 
room temperature to subsequently obtain the sintered ceramsite. According to the sintered ceramsite and the method, the potential activity of raw materials is sufficiently excited by adopting the 
wet grinding; the mill-
dust pollution generated during oven drying and dry drying is avoided; the environmental 
pollution and the resource waste of the stockpiling of the 
phosphate tailing are reduced to a great extent; the sintered ceramsite prepared by the method has 
water resistance, high strength, 
heat resistance and 
fire resistance, and can be widely used for building structure and landscape.