Bioflotation and bioflocculation of relevance to minerals bioprocessing

Microbial Processing of Metal Sulfides

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 267-286

  Rao, K Hanumantha ^a   Subramanian, S ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5589-7_14     Document Type: Chapter

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