Zinc hydrometallurgy residue is one of the main sources of heavy metals in the environment. The chemical components and mineralogical characteristics of the reductive leaching residue was obtained by ICP-AES, XRD and SEM + EDS analysis. The results showed that the main heavy metals in the residue were Pb, Zn, Cd and As. Pb, Zn and Cd in the residue existed as PbSO4, ZnS and CdS, respectively. The three-step sequential extraction procedure study showed that Zn and Cd mainly existed as oxidizable form; Pb and As mainly existed as the residue form. The leaching toxicity results using sulfuric aci...