The present work includes initially a bibliographical revision on the formation and reduction of the zinc ferrite. Further a thermodynamic and kinetic study was made, focusing its formation from an equimolar mixture of pure iron oxide Fe2O3, and pure zinc oxide ZnO, due to the fact that this substance is often the major constituent in the electric arc furnace dust. The zinc ferrite that is formed during the operation of the electric arc furnaces doesn t necessarily results from an equimolar mixture; it could be produced from a wide range of constituents compositions. Initially the equimolar mixture was characterized thermally (DTA-TGA) and structurally (XRD). The temperature where this compound began its formation and the quantitative results regarding the zinc ferrite synthesis conversion were calculated by the software Topas 2,1 Difracc Plus, using the Reitveld XRD method. The following experimental results from the kinetic analysis of the zinc ferrite formation were obtained: at low temperatures (650-730 Celsius Degree) the phenomena fitted the interface reaction model, or topochemical model, being the chemical reaction the control mechanism. The obtained data in this case was: Ea equal 65,6 kcal / mol and k equal 2,32 x 10-3 K-1. On the other hand, at high temperatures (750-1000 Celsius Degree) the modified population growth formalism showed the best fit, being the diffusional mechanism the controlling process. Again the obtained data was: Ea equal 16,1 kcal / mol and k equal 570 K-1. Finally a transition between the two mechanisms was found to happen at approximate 744 Celsius Degree (mixed control). Several DOPF (phase predominance operational diagrams) were obtained based upon the thermodynamic analysis of the Fe2O3 - ZnO mixtures reduction driven by CO and H2 reducing gases, focusing the formation and reduction of zinc ferrite compound. For that purpose the softwares HSC 5,0 and MathCAD 6,0 were utilized. The DOPF for the systems: Zn-C-O, Zn-H-O, Zn-C-H- O, Fe-C-H-O and Zn-Fe-C-H-O, considering the activities of their metallic and their oxides phases, were generated and discussed.