The invention relates to a method for recovering silver and
tungsten from silver-
tungsten alloy waste, and belongs to the technical field of comprehensive
recovery of
precious metal secondary resources. According to the method, the silver-
tungsten alloy waste is subjected to
extrusion forming and placed in a
titanium basket to serve as an
anode, a stainless steel plate serves as a
cathode, a [AgNH3] < + > solution serves as
electrolyte,
electrolysis is conducted, and silver
powder and
anode slime are obtained; the preparation method comprises the following steps: finely
grinding anode slime, adding pure water and an
oxidizing agent, slurrying, oxidizing
metal silver particles in
slurry into silver
peroxide by virtue of oxidation reaction at the temperature of 60-80 DEG C, adding
ammonia water to dissolve the silver
peroxide, enabling the silver
peroxide to form a silver-
ammonia complex, enabling the silver-
ammonia complex to enter a solution, and carrying out
solid-liquid separation, so as to obtain a silver-ammonia complex solution and coarse tungsten
powder; sequentially boiling and washing the coarse tungsten
powder with a
nitric acid solution and pure water, and
drying to obtain high-purity tungsten powder; and adding a
reducing agent into the silver-ammonia complex solution for reduction, carrying out
solid-liquid separation, and washing and
drying the
solid to obtain reduced silver powder. Compared with a traditional process, the method is short in technological process, small in environmental
pollution, high in
metal recovery rate, low in cost and high in production efficiency.