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Courtesy of Jillian BanfieldA group of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, struck gold in the drainage of an abandoned California mine. Using whole-genome shotgun sequencing, Jillian Banfield and colleagues reconstructed the genomes of microbes found in a pink biofilm that thrives in this extremely acidic environment.1 While …
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Even if gold is liberated by oxidation of sulfide minerals, or- ganic matter in such ores may adsorb the gold- cyanide complex, rendering it unavailable for re- covery. This phenomenon is known as 'preg-rob- bing'. Microbial oxidation does not seem to sub- stantially affect the preg-robbing characteristics of carbonaceous, sulfidic gold ores [4].
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Gold mining is a global business with operations on every continent, except Antarctica, and gold is extracted from mines of widely varying types and scale. At a country level, China was the largest producer in the world in 2023 and accounted for around 10 per cent of total global production. Our interactive gold mining map provides a breakdown ...
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@article{Yan2020DecipheringTT, title={Deciphering the toxic effects of metals in gold mining area: Microbial community tolerance mechanism and change of antibiotic resistance genes.}, author={Changchun Yan and Fei Wang and Haijun Liu and Hua-feng Liu and Shengyan Pu and Fanyu Lin and Huanhuan Geng and Shuai Ma and Yiyue …
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S. oneidensis requires addition of glutamate, arginine and serine to the medium to ensure proper growth [24, 34].Consumption of these was calculated to be 17, 20 and 9 mmol/Cmol X, respectively [35].Taking into consideration the biomass composition of C. vulgaris [36], the required amino acids may all be supplied in excess by using 4 g of …
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Effects of microbial types and diversity on chalcopyrite bioleaching were studied. • Community with more sulfur oxidizers and high diversity showed high Cu recovery. • Microbial types showed greater influences on mineral dissolution than biodiversity. • A. caldus enhanced CuFeS 2 extraction greatly by regulating …
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Bacterial cells are used to detoxify the waste cyanide solution from gold-mining operations and as "absorbants" of the mineral cations, and may replace activated carbon or alternative biomass. Microbes are playing increasingly important roles in commercial mining operations, where they are being used in the "bioleaching" of …
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Acid mine drainage occurs due to the chemical and microbiological oxidation of sulfide minerals and can be a source of potentially toxic elements contamination of groundwater and surface water. The objective of this study was to identify microorganisms involved in sulfide oxidation in the tailings of a Bahia Gold Belt mine (Brazil). Samples of …
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Developing Bioprospecting Strategies for Bioplastics Through the Large-Scale Mining of Microbial Genomes Front Microbiol. 2021 Jul 12;12:697309. doi: 10.3389 ... These genome mining efforts uncovered previously unknown candidate taxa for biopolymer production, as well as microbes from environmental niches with properties …
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Please visit Waterloo News to learn more about this microbial mining technique. In the media: Microbes can 'mine' metals from toxic waste — while fighting climate change: study. The Hill, April 27, 2023. University of Waterloo researchers are using microbes to get more out of mining waste. CBC The Morning Edition KW, May 2, 2023
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Biomining, also known as bioleaching or microbial mining, is a process that uses microorganisms (referred to as 'microbes') to extract metals from ores and minerals. This approach is an alternative to traditional mining and is more environmentally friendly.
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Microbial metabolomics focuses on the analysis of intracellular or extracellular primary metabolites, signaling molecules, hormones, and secondary metabolites, and it is an important field in systems biology. ... developed a novel strategy, DI-three-dimensional-MS, in which a step-wise multiple ion monitoring was performed to …
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Microbial recovery of metals is sometimes called "microbial mining" or "biohydrometallurgy". Biomining is a biotechnological process implemented at industrial scale to extract base metals from sulfidic ores. Current scenario Currently, biomining accounts for about 25% and 5% of the world production of Cu and Au, respectively.
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In order to monitor changes in the concentrations of metals in the soil, different microbial indices such as BIOLOG, microbial carbon (C(mic)), basal respiration, and culturable microbe's most probable number were used. We compared these methods and wanted to discover which method was the best at me …
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This paper presents an overview of the destruction of cyanide in mining related solutions by microbial processes and demonstrates how full-scale bacterial processes have been used effectively for many years in commercial applications in North America. Microbial destruction of cyanide and its related compounds is one of the most …
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This article reviews the recent developments and status of microbial processes for sulfide minerals in the mining industry, especially copper and gold. It also discusses new applications of bioleaching and biooxidation to laterite minerals, mine wastes and industrial wastes.
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Smelting activities at Giant Mine (Yellowknife, NWT, Canada) have resulted in high sulfate and arsenic concentrations in nearby lakes. Here we tested whether historic smelting affects current mercury (Hg) cycling in 35 freshwater lakes over a 2800 km 2 area around the former gold mine. We sampled lake water and sediment over three consecutive years …
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Bioleaching is a mining technique that uses microorganisms to extract metals from low-grade ore. Learn how bioleaching works, what metals it can produce, and why it is more cost-effective and environmentally friendly …
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Microbial destruction of cyanide and its related compounds is one of the most important biotechnologies to emerge in the last two decades for treating process and tailings solutions at precious metals mining operations. Hundreds of plant and microbial species (bacteria, fungi and algae) can detoxify cyanide quickly to environmentally acceptable levels and …
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"It replaces aggressive or toxic chemicals by microbial biomass and significantly reduces the energy demand and consequently the CO₂ footprint of metal recovery processes by a factor of three compared …
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A direct step-wise regulation strategy of microbial community structure was developed for improving chalcopyrite bioleaching by Acidithiobacillus sp. Specially, the initial microbial proportion between Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans was controlled at 3:1 with additional 2 g/L Fe 2+ for faster initiating iron …
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Pollution caused by the release of toxic heavy metals into the environment by industrial and farming processes has been regarded as a major problem worldwide.
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Compared with the background metal concentration in Beijing soils (Table S2) (Tong Bin et al., 2004), different concentrations of heavy metals were noted in this study, which are related to the corresponding minerals and mining methods employed in the gold mine. The methods of gold mining include the amalgamation method …
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Extreme environments such as hyperarid, hypersaline, hyperthermal environments, and the deep sea harbor diverse microbial communities, which are specially adapted to extreme conditions and are known as extremophiles. These extremophilic organisms have developed unique survival strategies, making them ideal models for …
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Mining: Bacteria with Midas touch for efficient gold ... Special 'nugget-producing' bacteria may hold the key to more efficient processing of gold ore, mine tailings and recycled electronics, as well as aid in exploration for new deposits, research has ...
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In this study, we used soils with different pollution and nutrient levels (non-polluted S1, highly polluted low-nutrient S2, and highly polluted high nutrient S3) around the gold mine tailing ponds, and combined with metabolic limitation modeling and macro-genomics approaches, aiming to investigate the relationship between soil microbial …
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Microbial destruction of cyanide and its related compounds is one of the most important biotechnologies to emerge in the last two decades for treating process and tailings solutions at precious ...
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This volume is an up-to-date review of advances in the field of biogenic extractive metallurgy, many of great economic and environmental importance. Because certain microorganisms have the ability to metabolize metals and inorganic elements generally, they serve an important role in the leaching of valuable minerals. Now with the …
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Microbial Mining Jennifer Caufield Alex Grippe Amy Weinberger. Outline • Brief History on Mining Industry • Introduction of the role microbes play mining • Methods of Microbial Mining • Copper • Gold • Conclusions. Mining History • Since 4500 B.C. • Conditions for traditional methods: • High grade ore • Inexpensive energy • Limited …
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The present work investigated the relationship among microbial activity, the community, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and trace metals in soil surrounding gold mine tailings.Using microbial metabolic activity and high. More Details
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Special 'nugget-producing' bacteria may hold the key to more efficient processing of gold ore, mine tailings and recycled electronics, as well as aid in exploration for new deposits, research...
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Genome mining allows for the large-scale discovery of potential microbial PHA producers through in silico identification of PhaC genotypes. Through the categorization of genotypes via phylogenetic and ecological information, we can find insight through the discovery of less-studied taxa as well as microbes from environmental …
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The complexity of microbial communities and their responses to changing environmental conditions pose challenges in monitoring and managing microbial activities at mining waste sites. Monitoring microbial activity necessitates the use of complex molecular techniques, which can be both expensive and time-consuming.
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