Method for recovering metals from ores and/or ore residues in the form of pyrite residues, wherein the method comprises the following method steps: (a) providing, in particular preparing, a starting material in the form of at least one ore and/or ore residue, wherein the starting material contains: (i) iron as the main component, and (ii) at least one noble metal selected from gold and/or silver; as well as (iii) at least one further metal selected from the group consisting of copper, zinc, lead, cobalt, titanium, manganese, vanadium and chromium; (b) oxidation treatment, in particular calcination and/or oxidative roasting, of the starting material provided in method step (a) using at least one oxidizing agent to obtain iron oxide and oxides of the further metals; (c) chlorination of the oxidation products obtained in method step (b), using at least one recyclable chlorinating agent, which comprises chlorinating iron oxide and oxides of the further metals to obtain iron chloride and chlorides of the further metals; (d) separating the iron chloride obtained in the method step (c) and optionally the chlorides of the further metals from the product mixture obtained in method step (c); (e) separating the noble metal from the product mixture obtained in method step (d); wherein chlorination is carried out in method step (c) as a solid-phase reaction, and wherein a recyclable chlorinating agent is used in method step (c), wherein the chlorinating agent used in method step (c) is recycled by recovery and/or separation of the reaction products resulting from the chlorination of the oxidation products from the chlorinating agent, and subsequent reaction of the reaction products with a preferably inorganic chlorine compound, wherein the recycling of the chlorinating agent is carried out in a reaction and condensation device, and wherein, in method step (c), the chlorination is carried out using ammonium chloride as the chlorinating agent; wherein the chlorination of the oxidation products obtained in method step (b) carried out in method step (c) and the separation and/or isolation of iron chloride carried out in method step (d) takes place in a common device, wherein the common device comprises a first section for carrying out method step (c) and a second section for separating and/or isolating iron chloride, and wherein the above-mentioned method steps (a) to (e) are carried out in the above-mentioned order. (a) providing, in particular preparing, a starting material in the form of at least one ore and/or ore residue, wherein the starting material contains: (i) iron as the main component, and (ii) at least one noble metal selected from gold and/or silver; as well as (iii) at least one further metal selected from the group consisting of copper, zinc, lead, cobalt, titanium, manganese, vanadium and chromium; (i) iron as the main component, and (ii) at least one noble metal selected from gold and/or silver; as well as (iii) at least one further metal selected from the group consisting of copper, zinc, lead, cobalt, titanium, manganese, vanadium and chromium; (b) oxidation treatment, in particular calcination and/or oxidative roasting, of the starting material provided in method step (a) using at least one oxidizing agent to obtain iron oxide and oxides of the further metals; (c) chlorination of the oxidation products obtained in method step (b), using at least one recyclable chlorinating agent, which comprises chlorinating iron oxide and oxides of the further metals to obtain iron chloride and chlorides of the further metals; (d) separating the iron chloride obtained in the method step (c) and optionally the chlorides of the further metals from the product mixture obtained in method step (c); (e) separating the noble metal from the product mixture obtained in method step (d);