Engineering Research
Materials Science
Engineering Series
Integration of Scientific and Industrial Knowledge on Biohydrometallurgy
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The main focus of this collection of peer-reviewed articles is biohydrometallurgy. This is the field of microbial ecology which is the key to answering central questions concerning not only the diversity and behavior of micro-organisms in commercial operations, but also possible applications in biohydrometallurgy of extremophiles coming from very different environments.
The 134 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Microbial Ecology, Geomicrobiology and Bioprospecting in Natural and Mining Environments;
Chapter 2: Omics, Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry of Microorganisms in Mining Processes;
Chapter 3: Industrial Biohydrometallurgy: Studies, Practices and Operation;
Chapter 4: Biohydrometallurgy as a Remediation Strategy.
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About 180 selected and peer-reviewed papers cover microbial ecology, geomicrobiology, and bioprospecting in natural and mining environments; -omics, molecular genetics, and the biochemistry of microorganism in mining processes; studies, practices, and operations in industrial biohydrometallurgy; and biohydrometallurgy as a remediation strategy. Among specific topics are microbial ecology in extreme acidic pit lakes of the Aberian Pyrite Belt in southwestern Spain, galactose as an inducer of the production of extracellular polymeric substances by </Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans/>, evidence for widespread dissimilatory hydrogen metabolism among acidophilic bacteria, immobilizing new isolated iron oxidizing bacteria on natural carriers, and the influence of pyrite on the galvanic assisted leaching of chalcocite concentrates.