A kind of refractory residue was taken to be pretreated by oxidative roasting for recovering the contained uranium, and the pretreatment parameters on the leaching rate of uranium was investigated. In the experiment, the refractory residue with particle size of-0.074 mm was subjected to oxidative roasting at 1 000 ℃ for 2 h, and the obtained roasted residue was leached with nitric acid, resulting in the leaching rate of 91.65%, uranium grade of 0.192% in the residue, and the residual rate of 78.86%. It is shown that the experiment results can p...