Mineral Biotechnology : Microbial Aspects of Mineral Beneficiation, Metal Extraction, and Environmental Control.
Title:
Mineral Biotechnology : Microbial Aspects of Mineral Beneficiation, Metal Extraction, and Environmental Control.
Author:
Kawatra, S.K.
ISBN:
9780873353786
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- SECTION 1: Biobeneficiation -- Depression of Pyrite Flotation by Yeast and Bacteria -- Calcium Removal from Bauxite Using Paenibacillus polymyxa -- Desulfurization of Coal by Microbial Flotation in a Semicontinuous System -- Biobeneficiation of Mineral Raw Materials -- Role of Corundum-Adapted Strains of Bacillus polymyxa in the Separation of Hematite and Alumina -- Role of a Heterotrophic Paenibacillus polymyxa Bacteria in the Bioflotation of Some Sulfide Minerals -- SECTION 2: Bioleaching -- Commercialization of Bioleaching for Base-Metal Extraction -- Microbiological Leaching of Uranium Ores -- Advances in the Application of the BIOX® Process for Refractory Gold Ores -- SECTION 3: Bioremediation -- Degradation of Metal Cyanide Complexes by Microorganisms -- Biochemical Removal of HAP Precursors from Coal-INEEL Slurry Column Testing -- Microorganisms, Biotechnology, and Acid Rock Drainage- Emphasis on Passive-Biological Control and Treatment Methods -- Sawdust-Supported Passive Bioremediation of Western United States Acid Rock Drainage in Engineered Wetland Systems -- Biotechnologies for Remediation and Pollution Control in the Mining Industry -- SECTION 4: Biomineralization -- Utility of Bioreagents in Mineral Processing -- Effect of Mesophilic Microorganisms on the Electrochemical Behavior of Galena -- Ocean Manganese Nodules: Biogenesis and Bioleaching Possibilities -- Immobilization of Free Ionic Gold and L-Asparagine-Complexed Ionic Gold by Sporosarcina ureae: The Importance of Organo-Gold Complexes in Gold Mobility -- Index.
Abstract:
Rapid progress is being made in minerals processing based on biological principles. Microorganisms can play a beneficial role in all facets of minerals processing, from mining to waste disposal and management. Biohydrometallurgical extraction of metals from a wide variety of ores is being commercially practiced all over the world--in Canada, the United States, Russia, South America, Australia, and Europe. Mineral Biotechnology: Microbial Aspects of Mineral Beneficiation, Metal Extraction, and Environmental Control provides the technical knowledge necessary to compete in this arena by presenting specific detailed technologies and real-world case studies. The interactions among biotechnology, metals, and minerals are relevant to a number of emerging interdisciplinary areas such as biogenesis and biomineralization; biomaterials processing and biomimetics; ceramics and biomedical engineering; biomineral beneficiation; bioleaching; biocorrosion, biofouling, and biodeterioration; and bioenvironmental control.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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