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Bioleaching
Bioleaching
is the extraction of
metals
from their
ores
through the use of
living organisms
. This is much cleaner than the traditional
heap leaching
using
cyanide
. Bioleaching is one of several applications within
biohydrometallurgy
and several methods are used to recover
copper
,
zinc
,
lead
,
arsenic
,
antimony
,
nickel
,
molybdenum
,
gold
,
silver
, and
cobalt
.
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