US EPA

8780710 

Book/Book Chapter 

Biomining of Natural Resources 

Kumar, P; Yaashikaa, P; Baskar, G 

2018 

WASTE BIOREMEDIATION 

313-342 

English 

10.1007/978-981-10-7413-4_17 

WOS:000463327500017 

Biomining is the way towards removing significant metals from minerals and mine tailings with the help of micro-organisms. This process has emerged as an innovative biotechnological approach for extracting the essential metals from low-grade ores. Micro-organisms are utilized to filter out the minerals, instead of the ancient strategies including utilization of outrageous temperature or toxic chemicals, for example simmering and purifying, which adversely affect the earth and furthermore expensive. Many industries have now turned to biomining due to low production cost and high yield maximum to 90%. The need emerges from recent patterns in the industries: progresses with the consumption of high-review mineral assets, the subsequent inclination for mining to be amplified further underground, the developing familiarity with ecological issues related with the purifying of sulphide minerals and the consuming of sulphur-rich fossil energizes and the increasing expense of the huge measures of vitality required in the routine recuperation techniques. Natural resources are assets that exist without activities of mankind. Natural resources can be segregated as biotic and abiotic natural resources. Biotic natural resources include all living creatures on earth including flora, fauna, vertebrates and invertebrates. Abiotic natural resources include all minerals such as gold, copper, iron. Biomining will turn out to be more vital as high-review surface mineral stores are worked out and turned out to be less feasible and mining organizations will be compelled to discover other mineral assets. Biomining can without a doubt give such a green innovation to adventure natural mineral assets. 

Biomining; Natural resources; Sulphide minerals; Microbial consortium; Green innovation; URANIUM; ORES 

Zakaria, ZA