Mechanisms of biological recovery of rare-earth elements from industrial and electronic wastes: A review

S Dev, A Sachan, F Dehghani, T Ghosh… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing application of rare earth elements (REE) in electronics, renewable energy,
biomedical devices, and industrial products has increased their demand globally. Enhanced …

The microbiology of biomining: development and optimization of mineral-oxidizing microbial consortia

DE Rawlings, DB Johnson - Microbiology, 2007 - microbiologyresearch.org
Biomining, the use of micro-organisms to recover precious and base metals from mineral
ores and concentrates, has developed into a successful and expanding area of …

Pilot-scale chemical–biological system for efficient H2S removal from biogas

WC Lin, YP Chen, CP Tseng - Bioresource technology, 2013 - Elsevier
A pilot-scale chemical–biological process was performed efficiently to remove corrosive H2S
from biogas. Consecutive 356-d livestock biogas purification was conducted at various H2S …

Effect of pH on rates of iron and sulfur oxidation by bioleaching organisms

JJ Plumb, R Muddle, PD Franzmann - Minerals engineering, 2008 - Elsevier
The solution pH in a given bioleaching operation is determined by the balance between the
acid-producing and acid-consuming reactions and also by the input of acid or alkali into the …

Microbiological advances in biohydrometallurgy

H Watling - Minerals, 2016 - mdpi.com
The most exciting advances in biohydrometallurgy are occurring in the field of microbiology.
The two main technologies employed in biohydrometallurgy, agitated tanks for the …

Biodiversity and interactions of acidophiles: key to understanding and optimizing microbial processing of ores and concentrates

DB Johnson - Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 2008 - Elsevier
Mining companies have become increasingly aware of the potential of microbiological
approaches for recovering base and precious metals from low-grade ores, and for …

Novel thermo-acidophilic bacteria isolated from geothermal sites in Yellowstone National Park: physiological and phylogenetic characteristics

DB Johnson, N Okibe, FF Roberto - Archives of microbiology, 2003 - Springer
Moderately thermophilic acidophilic bacteria were isolated from geothermal (30–83° C)
acidic (pH 2.7–3.7) sites in Yellowstone National Park. The temperature maxima and pH …

Comparison of selected characteristics of Sulfobacillus species and review of their occurrence in acidic and bioleaching environments

HR Watling, FA Perrot, DW Shiers - Hydrometallurgy, 2008 - Elsevier
Collation of published data for the four described Sulfobacillus species failed to generate a
clear account of their relative bioleaching capabilities. The two main goals of this work were …

Comparative analyses of the microbial communities inhabiting coal mining waste dump and an adjacent acid mine drainage creek

W Sun, E **ao, V Krumins, Y Dong, B Li, J Deng… - Microbial ecology, 2019 - Springer
Microbial communities inhabiting the acid mine drainage (AMD) have been extensively
studied, but the microbial communities in the coal mining waste dump that may generate the …

Differential bioleaching of copper by mesophilic and moderately thermophilic acidophilic consortium enriched from same copper mine water sample

NP Marhual, N Pradhan, RN Kar, LB Sukla… - Bioresource …, 2008 - Elsevier
Three acidophilic enrichment consortium were developed from mine water sample of copper
mine site at Khetri, India were compared for their copper leaching efficiency. Out of these …