Method for leaching valuable metal from cobalt-copper white alloy

The invention discloses a method for leaching valuable metal from cobalt-copper white alloy. The method includes the following steps that (1) the cobalt-copper white alloy is melted into an alloy melt, wherein the cobalt-copper white alloy contains silicon and almost contains no manganese; (2) a Mn-containing material is added into the alloy melt, and meanwhile gas is led in for blowing and slagging; (3) obtained slag is separated from the melt; (4) the melt with the slag separated out is atomized into alloy powder, wherein the mass friction of Mn in the alloy powder is 0.5%-20%; and (5) the alloy powder is subjected to acid leaching, and the valuable metal is recovered. Due to the fact that the Mn-containing material is added and reacts with the silicon in the cobalt-copper white alloy to generate the MnO-SiO2 slag, the silicon removal effect is achieved, and the method has the beneficial effects of being good in silicon removal effect and small in valuable metal loss. Besides, the melting temperature is much lower than the melting point of CaO-(MgO)-SiO2 binary system or ternary system slag in the prior art.