Disclosed is a method for separating and recycling
selenium and
tellurium from
copper anode mud. The method includes: performing soda
sintering on the
copper anode mud or
copper-removed
anode mud obtained after copper removing is performed on the
copper anode mud, adding water into the sintered material for leaching, and filtering to obtain
selenium-rich
leachate and
tellurium-rich leach residues; subjecting the
selenium-rich
leachate to
sodium carbonate separating and recycling, using
sodium sulfite or SO2 to revivify and recycle selenium in the selenium-rich
leachate or filtrate, filtering to obtain rough selenium
powder, and further refining the rough selenium
powder to obtain
metal selenium; leaching the
tellurium-rich leach residues via a
sulfuric acid solution, filtering to obtain acid leachate and acid leach residues; subjecting the acid leachate to silver separating through chlorination, using
sodium sulfite or SO2 to revivify and precipitate tellurium in the chlorinated acid leachate, filtering to obtain rough tellurium
powder, and further refining the rough tellurium powder to obtain
metal tellurium. The method has the advantages that by the integral redesign of the process and the mutual cooperation of the steps, the process
route for separating and recycling the selenium and the tellurium from the
copper anode mud is simplified greatly,
environmental protection pressure during a
copper anode mud
processing process is alleviated greatly, and the method conforms to the development tendency of energy saving and emission reduction technical transformation; the method is simple in process, simple to operate, low in production cost, high in selenium and tellurium recycling rate, good in
working environment, suitable for industrialized application, and the like.