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Bioleaching is the extraction or liberation of metals from their ores through the use of living organisms. Bioleaching is one of several applications within

value minerals like gold. Dump Bioleaching was one of the first widely used applications of biomining. In dump bioleaching, waste rock is piled into mounds

Rohwerder, T.; Gehrke, T.; Kinzler, K.; Sand, W. (2003). "Bioleaching review part A: Progress in bioleaching: Fundamentals and mechanisms of bacterial metal sulfide

the mining industry. Some species of Acidithiobacillus are utilized in bioleaching and biomining. A portion of the genes that support the survival of these

such as copper. Modern biohydrometallurgy advances started with the bioleaching of copper more efficiently in the 1950s Bio: Shortened form of Biology;

the loss of mineral and organic solutes due to percolation from soil Bioleaching, the extraction of specific metals from their ores through the use of

Aguirre became a commercial solvent-extraction-based operation using bioleaching. It became Chile's first mine to achieve this despite a previous attempt

copper sulfides and low-grade ores includes the process of heap bioleaching. Heap bioleaching presents a cost efficient extraction method that requires a

1007/978-3-662-68921-9. ISBN 978-3-662-68920-2. Watling, H.R. (2006). "The bioleaching of sulphide minerals with emphasis on copper sulphides – A review" (PDF)

palladium, copper and other metals in the mining sector (biomining, bioleaching), as well as in biotechnology, and the manufacture of antibiotics and