Abstract: There is 217.98 g/t of silver in a zinc hydrometallurgy leaching residue of Inner Mongolia with particle size of 92.48% -75 μm.75.51% silver is present in the form of metallic silver,silver sulfide and silver sulfide inclusions,and more than 90% silver is distributed in -75 μm fraction.Beneficiation experiments of flotation process are carried out in order to high efficiently recover the silver of the secondary resources.The results show that by using activated carbon as carrier of micro-fine silver mineral flotation and sorbent of dissolved silver,silver concentrate with silver grade of 4 084.18 g/t and recovery of 79.63% was obtained on disposing the zinc hydrometallurgy leaching residue with the closed-circuit flotation processing of one roughing,three cleaning,two scavenging,and middlings return to the flow-sheet in order.The process has characteristics of simple,efficient and low cost,and can be the basis for design of silver recovery system.

Key words: Zinc hydrometallurgy residue, Silver,Flotation, Carrier