The invention provides a method for continuous acid pickling purification of quartz sand. The method comprises the steps of heating, material loading, acid pickling, deacidifying, water washing, acid recovering and tail gas treatment. The invention also provides a device for implementing the method to perform continuous acid pickling purification on quartz sand; the device comprises a heating unit, a storage unit, a drum mixer, a water washing unit, an acid recovery unit and a water-jet vacuum unit; spiral line plates are arranged on the inner wall of a drum of the drum mixer, 20-60 lifting plates are mounted between two adjacent spiral line plates, two adjacent lifting plates and the spiral line plates on the two sides thereof are combined to form a lifting bucket, a driven gear is arranged on the outer wall of the drum of the drum mixer in a sleeved manner, a charging opening and a discharging opening are formed in the two ends of the drum, and spiral line plates are mounted on the inner walls of both of the charging opening and the discharging opening. The method and the device are capable of realizing sufficient acid pickling purification of the quartz sand by virtue of continuous automatic feeding, turning over and discharging of the quartz sand and acid liquor; as a result, the production efficiency and the quality of product are improved, and the acid is recycled and absorbed by use of alkaline so that the production cost is reduced, and meanwhile, the environmental pollution is reduced.