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Front Microbiol
November 2024
Environment and Sustainability Institute and Camborne School of Mines University of Exeter, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Lithium (Li) is becoming increasingly important due to its use in clean technologies that are required for the transition to net zero. Although acidophilic bioleaching has been used to recover metals from a wide range of deposits, its potential to recover Li has not yet been fully explored. In this study, we used a model Fe(II)- and S-oxidising bacterium, (At.
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July 2024
Department of Geomicrobiology, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany.
Front Microbiol
May 2024
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hannover, Germany.
Previous studies have reported the role of some species of acidophilic bacteria in accelerating the dissolution of goethite under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. This has relevance for environments impacted by acid mine drainage and for the potential bioleaching of limonitic laterite ores. In this study, natural well-characterized goethite mineral samples and synthetic goethite were used in aerobic and anaerobic laboratory batch culture incubation experiments with ferric iron-reducing, acidophilic bacteria, including the lithoautotrophic species , and , as well as two strains of the organoheterotrophic species .
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May 2024
Environment & Sustainability Institute and Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
The general trend in biomining (i.e., bioleaching and biooxidation) is the use of media with high concentrations of the nutrients (nitrogen as ammonium, phosphorous as phosphate, and K), which are considered to be essential for microbial growth.
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May 2024
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Acidophiles comprise a group of microorganisms adapted to live in acidic environments. Despite acidophiles are usually associated with an autotrophic metabolism, more than 80 microorganisms capable of utilizing organic matter have been isolated from natural and man-made environments. The ability to reduce soluble and insoluble iron compounds has been described for many of these species and may be harnessed to develop new or improved mining processes when oxidative bioleaching is ineffective.
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