The sources of serpentine wastes are tailings and large amounts of sludge are produced from stone mining and process. Most of the wastes currently are not effectively reused and also creates a waste of mineral resources. The purpose of this study is to extract amorphous silica from serpentine as silica precursor for high temperature synthesis of silicon carbide by carbothermal reduction with activated carbon, carbon black or waste graphite as the carbon sources. Formation of β type SiC was confirmed by XRD. The surface morphology was observed by SEM, and the purity of silicon carbide was measured by ICP-AES. The whole process is controlled by different enriched silica powders, type of carbon, molar ratio, reaction temperature, reaction time and post-processing for the synthesis of silicon carbide.