Engineering, equipment and materials: Developments in the design of a bacterial oxidation reactor

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1047-1055

  Hayward, T ^a   Satalic, D M ^b   Spencer, P A ^b  

^a Bateman Minerals and Indust Limited   (South Africa)

^b Bateman Kinhill   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Biooxidation; Hydrometallurgy; Leaching; Sulphide ores

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BUILDING MATERIALS; HYDROMETALLURGY; LEACHING; OXIDATION; SLURRIES; SULFIDE MINERALS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

BACTERIAL OXIDATION REACTORS;

BIOREACTORS;

EID: 0031256889     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-6875(97)00092-7     Document Type: Article

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