Relationships among bioleaching performance, additional elemental sulfur, microbial population dynamics and its energy metabolism in bioleaching of chalcopyrite

Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition)

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 192-198

  Xia, Le Xian ^a   Tang, Lu ^a   Xia, Jin Lan ^a   Yin, Chu ^a   Cai, Li Yuan ^a   Zhao, Xiao Juan ^a   Nie, Zhen Yuan ^a   Liu, Jian She ^a   Qiu, Guan Zhou ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bioleaching; chalcopyrite; iron oxidization; microbial community; sulfur oxidization

Indexed keywords

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS THIOOXIDANS; BATCH SHAKE FLASK-CULTURES; CHALCOPYRITE; COPPER DISSOLUTION; COPPER EXTRACTION; COPPER RECOVERY; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; ENERGY METABOLISM; FRAGMENT LENGTHS; IRON CONCENTRATIONS; IRON OXIDIZING BACTERIA; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; PCR-RFLP; REDOX POTENTIALS; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA; COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DYNAMICS; IRON; METABOLISM; METAL RECOVERY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REDOX REACTIONS; SULFUR;

BIOLEACHING;

EID: 84862921734     PISSN: 10036326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(11)61160-6     Document Type: Article

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