Extremophiles. 2000 Apr;4(2):71-6.

Acidophiles in bioreactor mineral processing.

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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. P.R.Norris@warwick.ac.uk

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Mineral processing in bioreactors has become established in several countries during the past decade with industrial application of iron- and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria to release occluded gold from mineral sulfides. Cobalt extraction in bioreactors has also been commercialized, and development of high-temperature biooxidation of copper sulfides has reached pilot-plant scale. A variety of potentially useful mineral sulfide-oxidizing thermophiles have been recognized, but the most active strains have not been fully characterized.

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