A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least 30 mol % of silver halide grains contained in the emulsion of the emulsion layer are silver chloride, the emulsion contains not more than 1.times.10.sup.-6 mol per mol of silver of a rhodium compound and/or not more than 1.times.10.sup.-5 mol per mol of silver of an iridium compound, and the silver halide grains have been selenium-sensitized. There is also disclosed a method for processing the silver halide photographic material.