Abstract:Lead-zinc tailings are the main solid wastes in the process of flotation of lead and zinc, which are mainly divided into silicate tailings and carbonate tailings. China is a big producer of lead and zinc in the world. The total storage of lead and zinc tailings has reached 500 million tons, but the comprehensive utilization rate is less than 20%. A large number of lead and zinc tailings not only occupy valuable space and land resources but also bring serious safety problems and hidden dangers of environmental pollution. It is urgent to explore the comprehensive utilization ways of lead and zinc tailings. In recent years, with the development, transformation, and upgrading of China''s resource industry, the basic research, technical development and industrial development of comprehensive utilization of lead and zinc tailings have become increasingly perfect and achieved remarkable results. In this paper, the research results on the consumption and comprehensive utilization of lead-zinc tailings in recent years are introduced from three aspects: the recovery of valuable components of lead-zinc tailings, the filling of underground goaf with lead-zinc tailings, and the comprehensive utilization of lead-zinc tailings as building materials, to provide reference for the related research on comprehensive utilization of lead-zinc tailings.