The invention belongs to the metal recovery technology in the field of beneficiation and wet-process smelting, and particularly relates to a method for recovering tungsten, tin, iron, scandium, niobium and other metal elements from tungsten smelting slag. The specific technological process comprises the following steps of (1), screening and uniformly mixing the tungsten smelting slag; (2), recovering the iron by adopting a high-gradient magnetic separator magnetic separation process to obtain iron ore concentrate; (3), recovering cassiterite by using a rotary-vibration disc concentrator; (4),recovering the tungsten by adopting a centrifugal concentrator; and (5), recovering the three kinds of rare metals, namely the scandium, tantalum and the niobium from centrifugal tailings, wherein theprocess which comprises medium-temperature medium-pressure hydrochloric acid leaching, extraction, washing and back extraction is adopted to recover the scandium, and the tantalum and the niobium arerecovered by adopting a purification process after being leached in hydrofluoric acid. According to the method for comprehensively recovering the useful metals from the APT tungsten smelting slag, awhole set of process method for recovering the iron, manganese, the tungsten, the tin, the scandium, the tantalum and the niobium from the tungsten smelting slag is provided, the beneficiation and smelting combined technology is advanced, the process application range is wide, the investment cost is low, and the industrial application is easy to realize.