Single and cooperative bioleaching of sphalerite by two kinds of bacteria-Acidithiobacillus ferriooxidans and Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans

Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition)

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 190-195

  XIA, Le xian ^a   LIU, Jian she ^a   XIAO, Li ^a   ZENG, Jia ^a   LI, Ban mei ^a   GENG, Mei mei ^a   QIU, Guan zhou ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acidithiobacillus ferriooxidans; Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans; bioleaching; Fe2+; Fe3+; sphalerite

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; MINERALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERRIOOXIDANS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; SPHALERITE;

BIOLEACHING;

EID: 39749129708     PISSN: 10036326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(08)60034-5     Document Type: Article

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