Bacterial activity at low temperature in cultures derived from a low-grade copper sulphide bioleaching heap at the Escondida Mine, Chile

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 20-21, Issue , 2007, Pages 543-546

  Zepeda, V ^b   Galleguillos, F ^a   Castillo, D ^c   Lastra, M ^c   Demergasso, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b Centro de Investigacion Cientifico y Tecnologico de la Mineria Chile   (Chile)

^c BHP BILLITON   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Copper sulphide ore; Low temperature; Microbial community

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLEACHING; BOTTLES; COPPER ORE TREATMENT; IRON; ORES; PILOT PLANTS; RNA; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; TESTING;

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; COPPER SULPHIDES; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77951660887     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/0-87849-452-9.543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. F. Remonsellez, F. Galleguillos, S. Janse van Rensburg, G.F. Rautenbach, P. Galleguillos, D. Castillo and C. Demergasso, in Proceedings of the International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium (2007), this book