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Research progress in enhanced bioleaching of copper sulfides under the intervention of microbial communities

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Compared with the traditional pyrometallurgical process, copper bioleaching has distinctive advantages of high efficiency and lower cost, enabling efficiently extracts of valuable metal resources from copper sulfides. Moreover, during long-term industrial applications of bioleaching, many regulatory enhancements and technological methods are used to accelerate the interfacial reactions. With advances in microbial genetic and sequencing technologies, bacterial communities and their mechanisms in bioleaching systems have been revealed gradually. The bacterial proliferation and dissolution of sulfide ores by a bacterial community depends on the pH, temperature, oxygen, reaction product regulation, additives, and passivation substances, among other factors. The internal relationship among the influencing factors and the succession of microorganism diversity are discussed and reviewed in this paper. This paper is intended to provide a good reference for studies related to enhanced bioleaching.

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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFC0600704), the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of China (No. 51722401), and the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51734001). Moreover, the authors would like to thank foundation of China Scholarship Council, Prof. David Drei-singer and Prof. Wenying Liu for the precious learning opportunities in UBC, Canada.

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Yin, Sh., Wang, Lm., Wu, Ax. et al. Research progress in enhanced bioleaching of copper sulfides under the intervention of microbial communities. Int J Miner Metall Mater 26, 1337–1350 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-019-1826-5

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