List of Contributors .......................................... xii
Preface ........................................................ xi
Section I - Fundamentals, microorganisms and
mechanisms .......................................... 1
1. Microorganisms involved in bioleaching and nucleic
acid-based molecular methods for their identification
and quantification .......................................... 3
Axel Schippers
2. Mechanisms and biochemical fundamentals of
bacterial metal sulfide oxidation .......................... 35
Thore Rolnverder and Wolfgang Sand
3. Electrochemical techniques used to study
bacterial-metal sulfides interactions in
acidic environments ..................................... 59
Deni.se Beviiaqua, Heloisa A. Acciari,
Assis V. Benedetti and Oswaldo Garcia Jr
4. Catalytic role of silver and other ions on the
mechanism of chemical and biological leaching .............. 77
Antonio Ballester, Maria Luisa Bldzquez,
Felisa Gonzalez and Jesus A. Munoz
5. Recovery of zinc, nickel, cobalt and other metals
by bioleaching ........................................... 103
Marisa Viera, Cristina Pogliani, Edgardo Donati
6. Bioleaching of metals in neutral and slightly
alkaline environment ...................................... 121
Aleksandra Sklodowska and Renata Matlakowska
Section II - Bioreactors and Bioheaps ......................... 131
7. Bioleaching of sulfide minerals in continuous
stirred tanks ............................................. 133
Dominique Henri Roger Morin
8. Bioreactor design fundamentals and their
application to gold mining ................................ 151
Fernando Acevedo and Juan Carlos Gentina
9. Airlift reactors: characterization and
applications in biohydrometallurgy ........................ 169
Alejandra Giaveno, Laura Lavalle, Patricia
Chiacchiarini and Edgardo Donati
10. Principles, mechanisms and dynamics of
chalcocite heap bioleaching .............................. 193
Jochen Petersen and David G. Dixon
Section III - Genetics and Molecular Biology .................. 219
11. The use of bioinformatics and genome biology
to advance our understanding of bioleaching
microorganisms ........................................... 221
Raquel Quatrini, Jorge Valdes, Eugenia
Jedlicki and David S. Holmes
12. Proteomics and metaproteomics applied to
biomining microorganisms ................................. 241
Carlos A. Jerez
13. Cell-cell communication in bacteria: A promising
new approach to improve bioleaching efficiency? .......... 253
Susana Valenzuela, Alvaro Banderas, Carlos A.
Jerez and Nicolas Guiliani
Section IV - Other Applications ............................... 265
14. Bioflotation and bioflocculation of relevance
to minerals bioprocessing ................................ 267
K. Hanumantha Rao and S. Suhramanian
15. Hydrogen sulfide removal from gaseous effluents .......... 287
Jose Manuel Gomez and Domingo Cantero
14. Index .................................................... 311
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