To provide briquettes for recovering valuable metals in steel making by- products for an electric smelting furnace which can be charged to the inside of an electric smelting furnace for recovering valuable metals in steel making by-products such as sludge cakes obtained by dewatering dust produced in an electric furnace and a converter in a steel making process, hot rolling scale produced in a hot rolling process or waste pickling sludge produced in a pickling process, and performing drying as well, and has objective strength (initial strength and strength after curing), and has excellent cost effectiveness, and to provide a production method thereof.

An aqueous solution in a concentration of 5 to 15 wt.% of polyvinyl alcohol and/or sodium carboxymethylcellulose whose viscosity by a B type viscometer at 25°C in 1% concentration is ≤150 mPa.s is added in 0.8 to 1.7 wt.% expressed in terms of solid components to steel making by-products and coke, and they are kneaded. After that, the kneaded material is briquetted, and the briquettes are naturally cured so as to control the content of moisture therein to 3 to 7.5 wt.%, and the briquettes for recovering valuable metals in steel making by-products for an electric smelting furnace are produced.

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