A Moderately Thermophilic Mixed Microbial Culture for Bioleaching of Chalcopyrite Concentrate at High Pulp Density

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 741-750

  Wang, Yuguang ^a   Zeng, Weimin ^a,b   Qiu, Guanzhou ^a,b   Chen, Xinhua ^c   Zhou, Hongbo ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOPYRITE CONCENTRATE; COAL MINE WASTEWATERS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DIFFERENT SUBSTRATES; LEPTOSPIRILLUM FERRIPHILUM; MIXED MICROBIAL CULTURE; MODERATELY THERMOPHILIC; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR;

ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

BIOLEACHING;

CHALCOPYRITE; ELECTROKINESIS; EUKARYOTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

CHINA;

CHALCOPYRITE; COPPER; FERROUS ION; FERROUS SULFATE; RNA 16S; SULFUR;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ADAPTATION; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREACTOR; CHINA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; THERMOPLASMATALES;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOREACTORS; CHINA; COPPER; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SULFUR; THERMOPLASMALES;

EID: 84892463313     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02907-13     Document Type: Article

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