The increasing demand for metals and the concomitant depletion of the primary metallic
resources is one of the most important environmental and societal challenges nowadays …

Owing to industrial evolution, a huge mass of toxic metals, including Co, Cu, Cr, Mn, Ni, Pb,
and Zn, and metalloids, such as As and Sb, has inevitably been released into the natural …

Bioleaching has been successfully used in commercial metal mining for decades. It uses
microbes to biosolubilize metal-containing inorganic compounds such as metal oxides and …

An effective strategy for environmentally sound biological recovery of copper and gold from
discarded printed circuit boards (PCB) in a two-step bioleaching process was experimented …

Compared to conventional extractive techniques, bacterial assisted leaching, also called
“biomining” is an eco-friendly technology that provides improved metal/solid separations …

Metal containing wastes/byproducts of various industries, used consumer goods, and
municipal waste are potential pollutants, if not treated properly. They may also be important …

Biomining is an increasingly applied biotechnological procedure for processing of ores in
the mining industry (biohydrometallurgy). Nowadays the production of copper from low …

The demand on especially clean energy metals is growing exponentially creating a clear
need to diversify the metals supply. Metal recovery from various waste deposits could be …

Bioleaching is an emerging technology with significant potentials to add value to the mining
industries so as to deliver attractive environmental and social benefits to all the associates …

The skyrocketing demand and progressive technology have increased our dependency on
electrical and electronic devices. However, the life span of these devices has been …