The invention discloses a preparation method of modified 
red mud for a 
coating. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly, washing the 
red mud, detecting a pH value of the washed 
red mud, carrying out filter pressing treatment to obtain clean red mud and 
drying the clean red mud; secondly, carrying out 
superfine grinding on the dried clean red mud and sieving to obtain clean red mud 
powder; thirdly, adding a modifier I into the clean red mud 
powder, controlling the temperature and the speed, and stirring to obtain a mixture I; fourthly, adding the mixer I and the modifier II into a stirrer, controlling the temperature and the speed, and stirring to obtain a mixer II; fifthly, 
drying the mixture II, then carrying out 
superfine grinding and sieving to obtain the modifiedred mud for the 
coating. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, the red mud is modified, then is filled into the 
coating for preparing indoor 
powder as filler and reaches thefilling volume as high as 48.3 percent or above; compared with filler such as conventional 
barium sulfate, the modified red mud has good filling performance and high filling volume, so that the production cost can be greatly reduced.