Abstract:With the continuous development of mineral resources, a large number of accumulated tailings have become one of heavy metal pollution sources in abandoned mines and industrial and agricultural land. Based on the national and social attention to ecological environment protection, heavy metal tailings have seriously restricted the development of mining, metallurgy and related industries. This paper actively responds to the green development, summarizes the hazards of tailings containing heavy metals, and summarizes the thermal desorption, washing, electrokinetic remediation, microbial removal, and multi-physical field enhanced removal technologies of heavy metals in tailings based on soil remediation in recent years. At present, although a large number of resources have been reused in mine filling, building materials production, production of high added value materials, and re-election, there are still problems of low comprehensive utilization rate and increasing stock. The research on stabilization treatment of heavy metals in tailings-based soil was introduced. The improvement methods of physical and chemical properties of tailings containing heavy metals include adding organic waste, biochar and acid-base materials. It is pointed out that the chemical composition, physical and chemical characteristics and resource cost of tailings should also be considered in the soil utilization of tailings. It is indicated that the resource utilization of tailings based on low concentration of heavy metals is an effective method to improve the comprehensive utilization rate of tailings and the scale of harmless treatment. Thus, the realization of soil utilization is an effective way to solve the problems of large accumulation of tailings, strong persistent pollution and low utilization rate of organic solid waste. It is of great significance to strengthen pollution prevention and green mine construction, continuously improve environmental quality and adhere to sustainable development.