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Science 2 February 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4072, pp. 488 - 490
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4072.488
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Leaching: Use of a Thermophilic and Chemoautotrophic Microbe

Corale L. Brierley 1 and L. E. Murr 2

1 New Mexico State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro 87801
2 Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro 87801

A chemoautotrophic, thermophilic, and acidophilic microorganism capable of oxidizing reduced sulfur and iron compounds and leaching concentrates of molybdenite and chalcopyrite at 60°C has been characterized by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. This constitutes the first direct observations of microorganisms on ore fines.


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