Bioleaching arsenic-containing gold concentrates with MLY and At.f

Zhongguo Youse Jinshu Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Nonferrous Metals

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1342-1347

  Luo, Zhi Xiong ^a,b   Zhang, Guang Ji ^a   Fang, Zhao Heng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Acidthiobacillus ferrooxidans; Arsenopyrite; Bioleaching; Moderately thermoacidphilic iron oxidizing bacteria

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; BACTERIA; BIOLEACHING;

ACIDTHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARSENIC CONTAINING GOLD CONCENTRATES; ARSENOPYRITE; MODERATELY THERMOACIDPHILIC IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIA;

GOLD ORE TREATMENT;

EID: 35248868288     PISSN: 10040609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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