- Title
- Current and future applications of micro-organisms to mineral processing
- Creator
- Rowe, James
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69182
- Identifier
- vital:3648
- Abstract
- One of the major issues faced by the minerals industry is the increasing restriction in the use and release of chemical compounds detrimental to the environment or to the health and safety of workers. Some biological processes have already been successfully adopted with technologies such as the bacterial oxidation or refractory sulphides and the degradation of cyanide compounds in tailings. Their full potential however has not yet been fully explored, due largely to a lack of interaction between the fields of mineral processing and microbiology. This paper outlines the basic principles behind those biological processes which have been adapted for minerals processing, as well as those that may have potential application in the future.
- Publisher
- Batu Feringghi, Penang, Malaysia :
- Relation
- Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Materials, Minerals, Environment and 2nd Asian Symposium on Materials and Processing, RAMM & ASMP '09, Batu Feringghi, Penang, Malaysia : 1st-3rd June 2009
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Biomining; Bacterial oxidation; Bio-hydrometallurgy
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