Biohydrometallurgy for Metal Recovery
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 261
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial mineral processing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The present Special Issue of Minerals would like to focus on most recent advances in the field of biohydrometallurgical methods for the efficient recovery of metal resources with special reference to scale-up processes leading to commercialization. The Special Issue would like to highlight advanced technological upgradation in said field which opens new avenues for development.
This Special Issue will cover a broad range of relevant subtopics:
- Biohydrometallurgical mineral processing for the recovery of metal resources from low grade mineral deposits.
- Biohydrometallurgical mineral processing for the extraction of PGE from oxidised platinum-group-containing mineral deposits.
- Commercial feasibility of biohydrometallurgical processes.
- Biohydrometallurgical extraction of metals from electronic waste.
- Biological desulfurization of coal.
- Biological reduction of oxidized minerals.
- Fungal bioleaching of minerals as an alternative to bacterial leaching.
Dr. Supratim Biswas
Dr. Naoko Okibe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biohydrometallurgy
- bioleaching
- desulfurization
- platinum-group elements
- electronic waste
- oxidized minerals
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