The invention discloses a
zinc smelting technology. The
zinc smelting technology comprises the following step that high-iron
sphalerite concentrate is subjected to
calcination, neutral leaching and low-acid leaching;
zinc ferrite is separated from the low-grade leaching residues by a
magnetic separator and the non-magnetic leaching residues are further treated by high-acid leaching; and the
zinc ferrite is decomposed into ferroferric
oxide and zinc
oxide by reduction
roasting, and the ferroferric
oxide and the zinc oxide are used respectively as a magnetic seed and a neutralizer used in a
leachate magnetofluid iron-removal technology. Through combination of a wet method and a fire method, a zinc
leaching rate and a lead and silver
recovery rate are improved, and the calcinations of the
zinc ferrite are used in the magnetofluid iron-removal technology so that an iron-removal technology cost is effectively reduced and iron residues are pure, have high
iron content and are conducive to iron residue comprehensive utilization. The
zinc smelting technology can efficiently prepare high-quality zinc
leachate, utilize agents having wide sources and a low cost, prepare a very-low iron-content zinc
leachate, greatly improve the efficiency of the zinc wet method
smelting technology, basically prevent a valuable
metal loss and promote resource comprehensive utilization.