Synopsis
Section I - Overview.- 1. Mining Biotechnology: Research to Commercial Development and Beyond.- Section II - Industrial Processes.- 2. Bioleaching of Copper.- 3. The BIOX® Process for Biooxidation of Gold-Bearing Ores or Concentrates.- 4. The Design and Operating Practice of Bacterial Oxidation Plant Using Moderate Thermophiles (The BacTech Process).- 5. Heap Leaching of Gold-Bearing Deposits: Theory and Operational Description.- 6. Biooxidation of Refractory Gold Ores (The Geobiotics Process).- 7. Technical Potential for Bioleaching and Biobeneficiation of Ores to Recover Base Metals (Other than Iron or Copper), Platinum-Group Metals and Silver.- Section III - Process Fundamentals.- 8. Recent Developments in Modeling the Kinetics of Bioleaching.- 9. Physical Chemistry of Bacterial Leaching.- 10. Optimization of Biooxidation Heaps.- Section IV - Leaching Microorganisms.- 11. Mesophilic, Autotrophic Bioleaching Bacteria: Description, Physiology and Role.- 12. Thermophiles and Bioleaching.- 13. Heterotrophic Acidophiles and Their Roles in the Bioleaching of Sulfide Minerals.- 14. Molecular Methods for the Identification and Enumeration of Bioleaching Microorganisms.
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