Microbiological leaching of uranium ores

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 51-60

  Tuovinen, O H ^a   Bhatti, T M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Acidophilic bacteria; Iron oxidation; Leptospirillum ferrooxidans; Pyrite oxidation; Thiobacillus ferrooxidans; Thiobacillus thiooxidans; Uranium bioleaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042603121     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403234     Document Type: Article

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