Microbial Processing of Metal Sulfides

Preface Section I - Fundamentals, microorganisms and mechanisms Microorganisms involved in bioleaching and nucleic acid-based molecular methods for their identification and quantification Axel Schippers Mechanisms and biochemical fundamentals of bacterial metal sulfide oxidation Thore Rodwerder and Wolfgang Sand Electrochemical techniques used to study bacterial-metal sulfides interactions Denise Bevilaqua, Heloisa A. Acciari, Assis V. Benedetti and Oswaldo Garcia Jr Electrochemical mechanism of leaching. Influence of the presence of catalytic ions and bacteria Antonio Ballester, Maria Luisa Blazquez, Felisa Gonzalez and Jesus A. Munoz Recovery of zinc, nickel, cobalt and other metals by bioleaching Marisa R. Viera, Cristina M. Pogliani and Edgardo R. Donati Bioleaching of metals in neutral and slightly alkaline environment Aleksandra Sklodowska and Renata Matlakowska Section II - Bioreactors and Bioheaps Bioleaching of sulfide minerals in continuous stirred tanks Dominique Henri Roger Morin Bioreactor design fundamentals and their application to gold mining Fernando Acevedo and Juan Carlos Gentina Air-lift reactors: characterization and applications in biohydrometallurgy Alejandra Giaveno, Laura Lavalle, Patricia Chiacchiarini and Edgardo R. Donati Principles, mechanisms and dynamics of chalcocite heap bioleaching Jochen Petersen and David G. Dixon Section III - Genetics and Molecular Biology The use of bioinformatics and genome biology to advance our understanding of bioleaching microorganisms Raquel Quatrini, Jorge Valdes, Eugenia Jedlicki and David S. Holmes Proteomics and metaproteomics applied to biomining microorganisms Carlos A. Jerez Cell-cell communication in bacteria: A promising new approach to improve bioleaching efficiency? Susana Valenzuela,Alvaro Banderas, Carlos A. Jerez and Nicolas Guiliani Section IV - Other Applications Bioflotation and bioflocculation of relevance to minerals Bioprocessing K. Hanumantha Rao and S. Subramanian Desulphurization of gaseous emissions containing hydrogen sulfide Jose Manuel Gomez and Domingo Cantero Index

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