摘要:
A copper bioleaching process which makes use of a consortium which contains Leptospirillum ferriphilum and a sulphur oxidising microorganism which is halophilic or halotolerant.
摘要:
A heap bioleaching process wherein carbon, in the form of a carbonate, carbon dioxide or organic carbon, is added to the heap when the temperature in the heap is in the range of 45oC to 60oC to increase microbial activity and thereby raise the heap temperature to above 60oC.
摘要:
A heap leaching method to recover copper from a primary copper sulphide mineral wherein the mineral is leached in an acidic chloride or mixed chloride/sulphate solution in the presence of oxygen with the surface potential of the mineral below 600 mV (vs. SHE) to cause dissolution of the copper sulphide.
摘要:
A microbial leaching process is carried out on a heap of particulate chalcopyrite ore by adding carbon dioxide to an air stream directed into the heap at least when the heap is at mesophilic temperatures, to stimulate growth, and to achieve a sufficiently high concentration, of mesophilic microbial strains in the heap so as to generate heat, at moderate thermophilic temperatures, at a rate which exceeds the rate of heat loss from the heap.
摘要:
A method of operating a tank bioleaching process of a concentrate, which includes the step of supplying carbon in a non-gaseous form to microbial cells used in the process.
摘要:
A microbiological heap leaching simulation process wherein material, representative of ore in a heap, is microbiologically leached in a housing and the temperature of the material at a plurality of locations in the housing is monitored and controlled to reduce heat loss from the housing. The apparatus includes insulation around the housing and further comprises one or more heat sources which are controlled to raise the temperature of the housing at a given location in response to the temperature of the material measured at that location, so as to reduce heat loss from the confined material to zero.