Bioleaching of some heavy metals from polluted soils

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1389-1393

  Berar Sur, Ioana Monica ^a   Micle, Valer ^a   Avram, Simona ^a   Marin, Şenilǎ ^b   Oros, Vasile ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b INCDO INOE Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation ^*  (Romania)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Contaminated soil; Heavy metals; Microorganisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870039055     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2012.173     Document Type: Article

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