Investigations of Biohydrometallurgy and Microbial Ecology of Mining-impacted Areas
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 267
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biohydrometallurgy; biomining; acidophilic microorganisms; metal extraction; sulfide ores and concentrates
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Interests: molecular biology; system biology; genomics; microbiology; metagenomics; microbial community; subsurface
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of the journal is dedicated to recent advances in biohydrometallurgy as well as in the research on the microbial ecology of mining-impacted areas, which are often the source of microorganisms used in biohydrometallurgy and help to understand the pattens underlying biohydrometallurgical processes.
This Special Issue will cover a broad range of relevant topics:
- Novel biohydrometallurgical technologies as well as the improvement of industrially used processes;
- Recent advances in industrial application of biomining technologies;
- Novel microorganisms involved in the biooxidation and weathering of sulfide minerals as well as in associated processes;
- Biotechnological processing of sulfide and non-sulfide ores and concentrates as well as mining and metallurgical wastes;
- Microbially mediated processes in mining-impacted areas and its environmental effects;
- Microbial ecology in industrial and natural ecosystems associated with biohydrometallurgy and mineral weathering.
Thank you and we look forward to receiving your contributions.
The first round of submission deadline is 31 May 2024.
Dr. Aleksandr G. Bulaev
Dr. Vitaly V. Kadnikov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biohydrometallurgy
- metal bioleaching
- acidophilic microorganisms
- sulfide ores and concentrates
- mining and metallurgical wasted
- environmental impact of sulfide mineral weathering
- biomining
- sulfate reduction
