A critical review on destruction of thiocyanate in mining effluents

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue , 2012, Pages 38-47

  Douglas Gould, W ^a   King, Morgan ^a   Mohapatra, Bidyut R ^b   Cameron, Rory A ^a   Kapoor, Anoop ^c   Koren, David W ^a  

^a Natural Resources Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Effluent; Gold; Thiocyanate; Waste management

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY; CRITICAL REVIEW; FULL SCALE; GOLD ORES; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; NITROGEN SOURCES; REGULATORY AGENCIES; REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS; SCALING-UP; STEEL PRODUCTION; THIOCYANATE;

BIODEGRADATION; CYANIDES; DEGRADATION; DETOXIFICATION; EFFLUENTS; GOLD; GOLD ORE TREATMENT; ORES; SEWAGE; STEELMAKING; SULFUR; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA;

EID: 84862557949     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2012.04.009     Document Type: Review

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