Microbial community dynamics during a demonstration-scale bioheap leaching operation

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 125-126, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-41

  Halinen, Anna Kaisa ^a   Beecroft, Nelli J ^a,c   Määttä, Kirsi ^a   Nurmi, Pauliina ^a   Laukkanen, Katja ^b   Kaksonen, Anna H ^a,d   Riekkola Vanhanen, Marja ^b   Puhakka, Jaakko A ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Talvivaara Mining Company Plc   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioleach communities; Complex sulfide ore; Demonstration scale bioheap; Mesophiles; Thermophiles

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARCHAEAL; BIOHEAP LEACHING; CELL COUNT; COMPLEX SULFIDE; DEMONSTRATION-SCALE BIOHEAP; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); FERROOXIDANS; FINLAND; LEACH LIQUORS; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERROOXIDANS; LOW GRADE; MESOPHILES; MESOPHILIC; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINERAL OXIDATION; NICKEL ORES; OPERATION PERIOD; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; OUTSIDE-AIR TEMPERATURE; START-UPS; SULFIDE ORES; SULFOBACILLUS THERMOSULFIDOOXIDANS; THERMOPHILES;

BACTERIA; CLONING; DEMONSTRATIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; IRON ORES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SULFUR;

LEACHING;

EID: 84863988033     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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