With global demands for mineral resources increasing and ore grades decreasing,
microorganisms have been increasingly deployed in biomining applications to recover …

Bioleaching offers a low-input method of extracting valuable metals from sulfide minerals,
which works by exploiting the sulfur and iron metabolisms of microorganisms to break down …

Bioleaching processes and acid mine drainage (AMD) generation are mainly driven by
aerobic microbial iron (II) and inorganic sulfur/compound oxidation. Dissimilatory iron (III) …

A laboratory-scale sulfur autotrophic reactor (SAR) was first constructed for treating tellurite
[Te (IV)] wastewater. The SAR had excellent Te (IV) bioreduction efficiency (90-96%) at 5-30 …

Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans is of paramount importance in the development of biomining
technologies. Being widely recognized as an extreme acidophile, extensive research has …

Sulfur oxidation stands as a pivotal process within the Earth's sulfur cycle, in which
Acidithiobacillus species emerge as skillful sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. They are able to …

Bio-mining microorganisms are a key factor affecting the metal recovery rate of bio-leaching,
which inevitably produces an extremely acidic environment. As a powerful tool for exploring …

A novel integrated sulfur fixed-film activated sludge in SBR system (IS 0 FAS-SBR) was
proposed to treat the low C/N ratio municipal wastewater. The effluent total inorganic …

Extreme acidophiles thrive in environments rich in protons (pH values< 3) and often high
levels of dissolved heavy metals. They are distributed across the three domains of the Tree …

Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are relevant agents in bacterial adaptation and
evolutionary diversification. Stable appropriation of these DNA elements depends on host …