The invention provides a method for preparing
electrolytic iron powder from
laterite-
nickel ore
hydrometallurgy tailings. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out deep acid leaching treatment on the
laterite-
nickel ore
hydrometallurgy tailings, and carrying out
solid-liquid separation to obtain
leachate and acid leaching residues; mixing the
leachate with a
reducing agent to carry out reduction reaction, adjusting the pH value of the
leachate to carry out aluminum and
chromium removal reaction, and adding
sodium sulfide into a solution obtained by the aluminum and
chromium removal reaction to carry out
nickel removal reaction, so as to obtain
impurity-removed liquid; and electrodeposition treatment is conducted on the liquid obtained after
impurity removal, a
cathode is stripped after electrodeposition treatment, the
cathode is crushed and then subjected to annealing
reduction treatment, and the
electrolytic iron powder is obtained. According to the method, through the acid leaching-
impurity removal-electrodeposition-annealing reduction process, the difficulty of
sulfur in the
iron ore concentrate process and the interference of
chromium in
smelting reduction are avoided, the high-purity
electrolytic iron powder can be obtained under the condition of low
energy consumption, and high-value recycling of iron resources in the
laterite-nickel ore
hydrometallurgy process is achieved.