The invention discloses a method for producing electrolytic
zinc, which comprises the following steps: (1) producing the electrolytic
zinc from
oxide material containing less than 20% of
zinc serving as a
raw material and by taking waste acid in a
titanium white
plant as a leaching agent, namely by using two wastes; (2)
grinding the
oxide material to obtain 80 to 100-mesh material and leaching zinc in the material by using the waste acid for about 3 to 4 h so as to obtain soluble zinc
sulfate; (3) filtering and adding
lime milk to regulate the pH value to 5.4 and hydrolyze impurities and rare metals in the solution to be separated out in the form of precipitate; (4) adding zinc
powder into the solution without the impurities so that
copper and
cadmium in the solution perform replacement reaction to generate cooper and
cadmium-containing precipitates which are commonly called '
copper and
cadmium slag'; (5) separating the zinc from
ferrous iron in the solution without
cobalt, namely, hydrolyzing zinc
sulfate in the solution by using
lime milk as a precipitant to generate white
zinc hydroxide precipitate; (6) filtering the
zinc hydroxide precipitate, heating the obtained solution to about 70 DEG C and introducing air to oxidize the
ferrous iron to
ferric iron; and adding a proper amount of oxidant so as to oxidize the
ferrous iron in the solution to the
ferric iron and separate out the
ferric iron in the form of precipitate, namely, removing iron by a '
goethite process'; (7) dissolving the precipitate by the electrolyzed solution and filtering, wherein the filter residue is used for preparing '
gypsum', the solution is subjected to
impurity removal,
evaporation, concentration and
crystallization, the
crystallization mother solution is returned to the leaching process, and the
crystal is dissolved by water and used for preparing
electrolyte; and (8) electrolyzing, stripping, melting and
casting into a zinc
ingot.