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Title:
【発明の名称】方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPS60500239
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
Process for the benificiation of ores, comprising the dissolution of pyrite, pyrrhotite or other gangue reduced iron and/or sulfur compounds by a strain of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans capable of oxidising iron and sulfur. The valuable metal is not solubilised by the micro-organism. The process is especially applicable to the treatment of tin ores, before, during or after beneficiation and also tailings from tin beneficiation which can contain up to 14 % of the tin originally present in the ore.

Inventors:
Killy, Bruce Chayers
Holden, Peter The Ames
Application Number:
JP50014884A
Publication Date:
February 28, 1985
Filing Date:
December 16, 1983
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Assignee:
Biotechnology-O-Stralia P-T-Y Limited
International Classes:
C12P3/00; B03D1/02; C22B3/18; C12R1/01; (IPC1-7): C12P3/00; C22B3/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kiyotaka Sasaki



 
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