Jarosite has high specific surface area and strong adsorption capacity,researchers usually use some methods to prepare jarosite and use it as an adsorption material,mainly used in a large number of mines and other industrial wastewater treatment and other fields.The results show that it has strong ad-sorption and coprecipitation for heavy metals such as Cr,Cd,Hg,Pb,As,etc.,therefore,the formation mechanism of jarosite and the study of jarosite as adsorbent are reviewed,in order to provide some ideas for more scholars to study jarosite,and then make the best use of its adsorption performance,it also pro-vides a theoretical basis for the treatment of heavy metal pollution in mining areas and industrial wastewater.