The invention relates to a method for recovering gold by adopting a leaching process, which is beneficial to full contact of a
gold ore raw material with
sodium cyanide through a crushing and screening process, and improves the
recovery rate of the
gold ore. The cyaniding gold-containing barren liquor generated after washing of a carbon extraction
sieve in the process of leaching and recovering gold from the high-grade raw ore is used for replacing direct spraying of
sodium cyanide on the secondary-grade raw ore, so that the consumption of the
sodium cyanide is reduced, and the economic cost of recovering gold is reduced; meanwhile, the problem that the
smelting cost of gold mud produced by leaching of the high-grade raw ore is increased due to the fact that cyanided gold-containing barren liquor which is continuously accumulated and enriched with
impurity ions is directly recycled and used for leaching of the high-grade raw ore is avoided, and
electrolysis barren liquor generated after
electrolysis of the gold-containing barren liquor is treated through an
intermediate product treatment process; according to the method,
impurity ions enriched in the electrolytic barren liquor are removed, meanwhile, in the electrolytic barren liquor treatment process,
tail gas and
tail liquor generated in the high-grade raw ore leaching gold
recovery process are neutralized, and the influence of the
tail gas on the environment is reduced.