The invention relates to a method for measuring silver, boron and tin in a geochemical exploration sample, for solving the problems of poor accuracy and precision while boron, tin and silver in soil are measured simultaneously in the original method; instruments, equipment and reagents are as follows: a grating spectrograph, an automatic photometer, an electrode, a spectrum sensitive plate, an agate mortar, a buffering agent and CdO, wherein the automatic photometer is connected to a computer; the electrode comprises an upper electrode and a lower electrode; the upper electrode is a conical graphite electrode; the lower electrode is 6 mm in outside diameter and is provided with a ring-shaped cup graphite electrode; the ring cup graphite electrode is 2 mm in ring height, 6 mm in ring outside diameter, 4 mm in hole inside diameter, 12.5 mm in hole depth, 13 mm in cup height, 5.2 mm in cup outside diameter, 4.0 mm in neck height and 3.5 mm in neck diameter; the mass percentage of the buffering agent is that mKI:mK2S207:mSiO2:mC:mZnO is 24:20:48:7:1; 0.015% of CdO is additionally added; a specimen is weighed; 0.0500 g of buffering agent is weighed and put into a crucible; after being stirred for one minute, the mixture is put into the electrode and subjected to pressing, spectrograph, development and photographic fixing; the automatic photometer translates a spectrum and analyzes internal standard line pairs as follows: Ag328.07 nm / Cd326.1 nm, B249.7 nm / Si249.4 nm, and Sn317.51 nm / Cd326.1 nm; a standard curve is automatically fit; the content of individual elements in a sample is automatically calculated.