Copper tailings provided by Jinchuan Group as the research object,relying on the coal based hydrogen metallur-gy rotary kiln process(early carbon metallurgy+late hydrogen metallurgy)to carry out coal based hydrogen metallurgy pi-lot test of copper tailings.The experimental data show that the average metallization rate of 93.33%,the grade of magnetic separation iron powder of 86.03%and the recovery rate of system iron of 93.29%are obtained under the conditions of kiln temperature of 1 100 ℃ and kiln time of 3.5 h.