Use of phosphate solubilizing bacteria to leach rare earth elements from monazite-bearing ore

Minerals

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 189-202

  Shin, Doyun ^a,b   Kim, Jiwoong ^a   Kim, Byung Su ^a,b   Jeong, Jinki ^a,b   Lee, Jae Chun ^a,b  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bioleaching; Monazite; Phosphate solubilizing bacteria; Rare earth element

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937545336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2075163X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/min5020189     Document Type: Article

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