The invention relates to a method for preparing
calcium sulfate whiskers and
magnesium hydroxide by decomposing
phosphate tailings through
hydrochloric acid. The method comprises the following steps: adding
phosphate tailings and
hydrochloric acid into a decomposing tank to adequately react in the decomposing tank, and carrying out
solid-liquid separation I on reacted
slurry, so as to separate first mother solution and
solid waste residues, wherein the
solid waste residues are acid-insoluble substances; adding
sulfuric acid into the first mother solution to react for
crystallization, so as to generate the
calcium sulfate whiskers; carrying out solid-liquid separation on crystallized
slurry, so as to separate
calcium sulfate dihydrate
whiskers, wherein the mother solution is a mixed mother solution containing
magnesium chloride and
hydrochloric acid; after
magnesium chloride in the mixed mother solution reaches a certain concentration, starting to take out a part of mixed mother solution, carrying out
flash evaporation to evaporate HCl in the mother solution so as to obtain the mother solution mainly containing magnesium
chloride, and returning the rest part of the mixed mother solution to the decomposing tank; introducing
ammonia gas into the magnesium chloride mother solution, and carrying out solid-liquid separation, so as to obtain a relatively pure magnesium chloride mother solution and magnesium
ammonium chloride solids containing a small amount of impurities; and absorbing HCl gas in the front stage by a magnesium
ammonium chloride solution to enable the pH value of the magnesium
ammonium chloride solution to be close to neutrality, and carrying out concentration and
crystallization, so as to obtain magnesium
ammonium chloride crystals. The method has the
advantage that magnesium
hydroxide and the calcium sulfate whiskers which have relatively high quality can be produced from
industrial waste and the cheap raw materials.