Bioreactor design fundamentals and their application to gold mining

Microbial Processing of Metal Sulfides

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 151-168

  Acevedo, Fernando ^a   Gentina, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5589-7_8     Document Type: Chapter

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