The invention discloses an iron tailing far-infrared ceramic material and a preparation method thereof. The ceramic material is characterized by being prepared from the following components in percentage by weight: 35-75% of iron tailings, 1-9% of clay, 11-25% of silicon dioxide, 11-25% of calcium carbonate and 2-6% of aluminum oxide, wherein the sum of the percentage of the components is 100%; the iron tailing comprises the following main components: 30-35% of SiO2, 20-25% of Fe2O3, 10-15% of Al2O3, 10-15% of TiO2 and a small amount of CaO, Na2O and MgO, and the sum of percentage of the components is 100%; XRD shows that the main components of the ceramic material are anorthite, diopside and titanium sheet iron ore. According to the preparation method, the iron tailing, the clay, silicon dioxide, calcium carbonate and aluminum oxide are used as raw materials, and are subjected to ball-milling, screening, allocation, stirring, drying, mixing, dry pressing forming and sintering, thereby preparing the iron tailing far-infrared ceramic material.