The invention provides a method for preferentially extracting gold and silver from lead
anode slime, and relates to the technical field of
precious metal recovery, firstly, silver,
antimony and other valuable metals in the lead
anode slime are leached into a solution through
catalytic oxidation leaching in the presence of a protective agent, and gold is enriched in residues; then, silver is selectively precipitated from the
leachate, and silver
precipitation residues and a valuable
metal solution are obtained; and finally, valuable metals in the solution are recovered by adding a neutralizer and a precipitator, the obtained leaching
mother liquor can be returned for leaching after being supplemented with
hydrochloric acid, and the valuable
metal precipitates are used for recovering
antimony and
bismuth. The method changes the traditional lead
anode slime treatment thinking of first
impurity removal and second refining, has the characteristics of high gold and silver direct
recovery rate (greater than 99.5%), high
reaction speed (total consumed time is less than 1 h), low cost and no generation of waste residue and
wastewater, and is expected to solve the problems of long gold and silver
recovery process, low direct recovery rate, capital overstock and difficult treatment of
arsenic and
antimony-containing
smoke in the existing lead anode slime treatment method. The method has remarkable economic and environmental benefits and a good application prospect.