Leaching of pyrite by acidophilic heterotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria in pure and mixed cultures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 585-590

  Bacelar Nicolau, Paula ^a   Johnson, D Barrie ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEACHING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION;

ACIDIPHILIUM ACIDOPHILUM; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THIOBACILLUS; THIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS;

EID: 0033007743     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.585-590.1999     Document Type: Article

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