Abstract: The stock of gold tailings grows gradually and will cause problems of resource, invironment, safety, land and so on. In the 'Twelfth Five-Year Plan’, the most large utilization and high-value utilization of solid wastes, which discharged greatly, stocked enormously, and polluted seriously will be promoted rapidly. After the characterization analysis of gold tailings, its treatment and comprehensive utilization were comparatively studied. This will provide significant references for the treatment of gold tailings and promote the treatment and resource utilization of bulk waste.