Bioleaching metal-bearing wastes and by-products for resource recovery: a review

I Tezyapar Kara, K Kremser, ST Wagland… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2023 - Springer
The global transition to a circular economy calls for research and development on
technologies facilitating sustainable resource recovery from wastes and by-products. Metal …

Fungal bioleaching of metals from refinery spent catalysts: A critical review of current research, challenges, and future directions

A Pathak, R Kothari, M Vinoba, N Habibi… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Petroleum refining operations such as hydroprocessing and fluid catalytic cracking (FCC)
generate huge quantities of spent catalysts containing toxic and valuable metals (Ni, V, Mo …

Genetic engineering of extremely acidophilic Acidithiobacillus species for biomining: Progress and perspectives

J Chen, Y Liu, P Diep, R Mahadevan - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
With global demands for mineral resources increasing and ore grades decreasing,
microorganisms have been increasingly deployed in biomining applications to recover …

A review of biocyanidation as a sustainable route for gold recovery from primary and secondary low-grade resources

J Wang, F Faraji, J Ramsay, A Ghahreman - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Gold recovery from limited global resources has gained increasing attention due to a
growing demand for gold and heightened social awareness of the high toxicity and the …

Comparison and evaluation of vanadium extraction from the calcification roasted vanadium slag with carbonation leaching and sulfuric acid leaching

X Hui, J Zhang, Y Liang, Y Chang, W Zhang… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Calcification roasting process for vanadium extraction has advantages in environmental
protection, low cost of roasting additives, easy reutilization of the tailings. During the …

The combination of aerobic digestion and bioleaching for heavy metal removal from excess sludge

X Zhang, J Li, W Yang, J Chen, X Wang, D Xing… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, bioleaching is employed for removing heavy metals from excess sludge
generated during municipal wastewater treatment. To avoid organic matter impact on …

Exploring chalcopyrite (bio) leaching mechanisms under thermophilic conditions

AGR Toledo, RB Costa, TP Delforno, FA Arena… - Minerals …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chalcopyrite is highly recalcitrant to bioleaching and its dissolution mechanisms are still
debatable. In this study, both concentrated and low-grade chalcopyrite were subjected to …

[HTML][HTML] Unlocking the hidden value of industrial by-products: Optimisation of bioleaching to extract metals from basic oxygen steelmaking dust and goethite

IT Kara, N Simmons, ST Wagland, F Coulon - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the potential of bioleaching to extract valuable metals from industrial by-
products, specifically basic oxygen steelmaking dust (BOS-D) and goethite was investigated …

Some aspects of industrial heap bioleaching technology: From basics to practice

J Li, H Yang, L Tong, W Sand - Mineral Processing and Extractive …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Heap bioleaching is a microbial technology that catalyzes the decomposition of ore without
grinding. The crushed ore is stacked on the liner, and the microbial solution flows through …

Bioleaching modeling—a review

M Saldaña, M Jeldres, FM Galleguillos Madrid… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The leaching of minerals is one of the main unit operations in the metal dissolution process,
and in turn it is a process that generates fewer environmental liabilities compared to …