Jamesonite is a kind of metal composite sulfide ore，and it is difficult to separate lead-antimony applying currently processing technology，instead，smelting technology is generally used for  lead antimony separation.Since the 1960s，metallurgical researchers have developed a variety of crafts to separation of lead antimony，such as smelting，chlorization hydrolysis and sodium sulfide leaching method，etc.However，with the rapid development of smelting technology，the existing technologies can’t meet today’s development and the limitations gradually.In this review，we summarized the main characters of the jamesonite，then process characteristics and the existing problems of the mentioned methods were briefly addressed.Moreover，we analyzed the  limitation of sulfur lead antimony smelting process，meanwhile，the oxygen-enriched strengthening smelting method of smelting single lead or single lead as well as brittle mixed lead antimony smelting sulfur latest technology were introduced.In addition，we mentioned that oxygen-enriched strengthening smelting process should be strengthened in the future.