<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Finding a cleaner, environmentally friendly and cost-effective way of metal and mineral extraction has a great importance in today’s world. Using microorganisms in bio-leaching and bio-oxidation process is of great value. From Archaea to bacteria and fungi, microorganisms can play an important role in extraction of metals from mine drainage and un-accessible sources, both in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Optimization of environmental factors such as the temperature, pH and substrate concentration is crucially important to access the optimum extraction of selected metals from an ore or mine drainage. The present paper will review the bio-leaching and bio-oxidation process of minerals with emphasis on the most well-known species of bacterial communities of such ability, through the literature.</p></abstract>

Finding a cleaner, environmentally friendly and cost-effective way of metal and mineral extraction has a great importance in today’s world. Using microorganisms in bio-leaching and bio-oxidation process is of great value. From Archaea to bacteria and fungi, microorganisms can play an important role in extraction of metals from mine drainage and un-accessible sources, both in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Optimization of environmental factors such as the temperature, pH and substrate concentration is crucially important to access the optimum extraction of selected metals from an ore or mine drainage. The present paper will review the bio-leaching and bio-oxidation process of minerals with emphasis on the most well-known species of bacterial communities of such ability, through the literature.

Microbiological Leaching; an Environmentally Friendly and Cost Effective Method for Extraction of Metals

Department of Metallurgy and Materials, Faculty of Engineering, Dezful Branch

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research

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Finding a cleaner, environmentally friendly and cost-effective way of metal and mineral extraction has a great importance in today’s world. Using...

Microbiological Leaching; an Environmentally Friendly and Cost Effective Method for Extraction of Metals

Published Online: Feb 06, 2018

Page range: 29 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/trser-2018-0010

Keywords
Bio-leaching, bio-oxidation, bacteria

© 2018 Mehdi Ghobeiti-Hasab et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Microbiological Leaching; an Environmentally Friendly and Cost Effective Method for Extraction of Metals

Published Online: Feb 06, 2018

Page range: 29 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/trser-2018-0010

KeywordsBio-leaching, bio-oxidation, bacteria

© 2018 Mehdi Ghobeiti-Hasab et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Bio-leaching, bio-oxidation, bacteria