Processing of arsenopyritic gold concentrates by partial bio-oxidation followed by bioreduction

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 6316-6321

  Hol, Alex ^a   Van Der Weijden, Renata D ^a   Van Weert, Gus ^b   Kondos, Peter ^c   Buisman, Cees J N ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Oretome Limited   (Canada)

^c BARRICK GOLD CORPORATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC WASTE; BIO-OXIDATION; BIOLOGICAL OXIDATIONS; BIOREDUCTIONS; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; GOLD CONCENTRATE; GOLD RECOVERIES; LOOP REACTORS; MINERAL SURFACES; PRE-TREATMENT;

EXPERIMENTS; GAS LIFTS; GOLD; HYDRODESULFURIZATION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; REACTOR OPERATION; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFUR;

OXIDATION;

ARSENOPYRITE; GOLD; PYRITE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOREACTOR; GOLD; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; PH; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; OXIDATION; PH; REDUCTION;

ARSENIC; ARSENICALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOREACTORS; GOLD; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINERALS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILVER; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SULFIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79960961323     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200676z     Document Type: Article

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