| Literature DB >> 10805560 |
P R Norris1, N P Burton, N A Foulis.
Abstract
Mineral processing in bioreactors has become established in several countries during the past decade with industrial application of iron- and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria to release occluded gold from mineral sulfides. Cobalt extraction in bioreactors has also been commercialized, and development of high-temperature biooxidation of copper sulfides has reached pilot-plant scale. A variety of potentially useful mineral sulfide-oxidizing thermophiles have been recognized, but the most active strains have not been fully characterized.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID: 10805560 DOI: 10.1007/s007920050139
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Extremophiles ISSN: 1431-0651 Impact factor: 2.395