Bioremediation of metal contamination

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 45-60

  Mulligan, Catherine N ^a   Galvez Cloutier, Rosa ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger; Bioleaching; Bioremediation; Copper; Mining tailings

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; COPPER; METAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC ACIDS; OXIDATION; SOLUBILITY; SUBSTRATES; ULTRASONICS;

METAL CONTAMINATION;

BIOREMEDIATION;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; COPPER; GLUCONIC ACID; MINERAL; MOLASSES; SUCROSE;

BIOREMEDIATION; COPPER; FUNGUS; LEACHING; TAILINGS;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIOREMEDIATION; BREWING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; CULTURE MEDIUM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MINING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; SOLUBILIZATION; SUPERNATANT; ULTRASOUND;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COPPER; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MINING; SUCROSE;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037404712     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022874727526     Document Type: Article

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