Method for production of metallic titanium and metallic titanium obtained with the method

A method for production of metallic titanium, comprising the following steps:

• (1) contacting a molten titanium oxide-containing raw material with a carbonaceous reducing agent such that the titanium oxide in the titanium oxide-containing raw material is fully or partially reduced to TiOx, wherein, 2>x>0, to obtain molten titanium slag that contains the reduction product of said TiOx;
• (2) cooling the molten titanium slag that contains the reduction product of said TiOx obtained in step (1) to be shaped to obtain a titaniferous material, the cooling is conducted such that the average pore diameter of the titaniferous material is 1 mm˜10 mm and the porosity is 20%˜60%;
• (3) taking the titaniferous material obtained in step (2) as the anode, a metal material as the cathode, and a molten salt material as the electrolyte, and carrying out electrolysis under electrolytic conditions, to obtain metallic titanium.