Biohydrometallurgy: From the Single Cell to the Environment

17th IBS International Scientific Committee
17th IBS Local Organizing Committee
Preface
Honouring James A. Brierley - A Leading Biohydrometallurgist
IN MEMORIAM Gregorii I. Karavaiko
Honorary Lecture
Biohydrometallurgy - This Microbiologist?s Perspective
Bioleaching Technology and Biobenefication (edited by F. Glombitza)
Keynote Paper
BioMinE - Biotechnology for Metal Bearing Materials in Europe Work Progress after Two Years
Extended Abstracts
Optimization of ROM Sulfide Leaching at Anglo American Chile Los Bronces Division
Development of a Biotechnological Process for Reprocessing Flotation Tailings from Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex, Rep. of Uzbekistan
Talvivaara Black Schist Bioheapleaching Demonstration Plant
Comparison of the Bioleaching Effect of Mesophilic (35 degreesC) and Thermophilic (45 degreesC) Bacteria on the TIZAPA Tailings
Application Potential of Biohydrometallurgy in the Iranian Mining Industry
The Bioshale Project: Search for a Sustainable Way of Exploiting Black Shale Ores Using Biotechnology
Removal of Organically Bound Sulfur From Oil Shale by Iron(III)-Ion Generated-Regenerated from Pyrite by the Action of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
Mobilization of Silver, Gold, and Platinum from Solid Materials by HCN-Forming Microorganisms
High-Rate Fluidized-Bed Ferric Sulfate Generation for Hydrometallurgical Applications
Development of a Tank Bioleaching Process for the Treatment of Complex Cu-Polymetallic Concentrates
Continuous Bioleaching of a Cobaltiferous Pyrite in Stirred Reactors: Population Dynamics and EPS Production vs. Bioleaching Performances
Characterisation of Factors in the Bacterial Leaching of Nickel Laterites Using Statistical Design of Experiments
Modeling the Auto-Thermal Performance of a Thermophilic Chalcopyrite Bioleaching Heap Employing Mesophilic and Thermophilic Microbes
Biological Transformation of Kimberlite Ores
Bioleaching of a Zinc Sulfide Ore by Thermophilic Consortia Isolated from Copahue Volcano
Electrochemical Noise Analysis of Chalcopyrite Carbon Paste Electrodes by Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
Influence of Chelators on Iron Solubilization from Quartz and Feldspars by Bioleaching
Biooxidation and Cyanidation for Gold and Silver Recovery from Acid Mine Drainage Generating Tailings (Ticapampa, Peru)
A View on the Organic Matter and Metalloporphyrins Biodegradation as Characteristic Components of Black Shale Ores
Microbial Leaching of Metals from Printed Circuit Boards
Bioleaching of a Rich-In-Carbonates Copper Ore at Alkaline pH
Cobalt and Nickel Recoveries from Laterite Tailings by Organic and Inorganic Bioacids
Bioleaching of a High Iron Content Kaolin by Aspergillus niger: The Effects of Organic Acids Biosynthesis
Optimization of Kaolin Bioleaching by Aspergillus niger
Application of Mesophilic Mixed Micro-Organisms for Recovery of Valuable Metals from Spent Refinery Catalysts
Biological Purification of Silicate Minerals
Deferrization of Kaolinic Sand by Iron Oxidizing and Iron Reducing Bacteria
Sulfur Product Layer in Sphalerite Biooxidation: Evidences for a Mechanism of Formation
Monitoring of Hydrocarbon Gaseous Compounds formed During Bioleaching of Copper Sulphide Minerals with Mesophilic Microorganisms
Bioleaching of a Mixed Copper Dust Emanating from Copper Smelters
Investigation of Viscosity and Thermodynamic Properties on the Bioleaching Solution with and without Mesophilic Bacteria
Process Enhancement of Bioleaching of Covellite Concentrate through Modification of Solution Potential
The Effect of Aluminium and Magnesium Sulphate on the Rate of Ferrous Iron Oxidation by Leptospirillum ferriphilum in Continuous Culture
Kinetic Measurement of Biological Oxidation of Ferrous Iron at Low Ferric to Ferrous Ratios in a Controlled Potential Batch Reactor
Short Abstracts
Bioleaching of Multimetal Black Shale by Thermophilic Micro-Organisms
Effect of Temperature on Bioleaching of Chalcopyrite Concentrates containing High Concentrations of Silver: Opposite Rules Apply
Microbial Populations in a 110 Ton-Scale Column for the Recovery of Metals from Black Schist Ores
Combined Test for Bioleaching Activities
Study on Selective Depression of Pyrite during Copper Bioleaching
Environmental Problems (edited by S. Willscher)
Keynote Paper
Biogeochemical Processes in Mine Tailings with Special Focus on Marine Shore Tailings Deposits and their Remediation
Extended Abstracts
Modelling of Contaminant Release from Mining Waste Deposits
Environmental Toxicity Testing in the Risk Assessment of a Metal Contaminated Abandoned Mining Site in Hungary
Application of Sulfate Reduction for the Biological Conversion of Anglesite to Galena
First Evidence of Active Sulphate Reduction in a Lignite Mine Dump Site at Low pH Values - the Plessa Site
Treatment of Uranium-Containing Drainage Water in a Pilot-Scale Plant by Means of Microbial Reduction
Development and Potential Application of a Method for the Prediction and Assessment of the Seepage Water Quality
Accumulation of Heavy Metals in Anaerobic Sludge and its Disposal by Landspreading
Microbial and Geochemical Characterization of an Acid-Generating Hard Coal Tailings Dump in Saxonia/ Germany
Environmental Risk Management of an Abandoned Mining Site in Hungary
New Xochiquetzalli Method for Sulfide Ion Determination in Aqueous Media. Application to Tailings Analysis.
A Study of the Operating Parameters of a Sulphate-Reducing Fixed-Bed Reactor for the Treatment of Metal-Bearing Wastewater
Short Abstracts
Iron Isotope Fractionation by Biogeochemical Processes in Mine Tailings
Biodegradation of Organic Matter and Release of Heavy Metals from the Copper Bearing Black Shale of Fore Sudetic Monocline (Poland)
(Bio)-Remediation (edited by W. Sand)
Keynote Papers
The Wismut Uranium Mining Rehabilitation Project Running for 15 Years - Lessons Learned and Achievements
Bioremediation of Acid Mine Drainage in an Uranium Deposit
Extended Abstracts
Sustainable Approach for the Immobilization of Metals in the Saturated Zone: In Situ Bioprecipitation
Development of a Novel Biological System for Removing Manganese from Contaminated Waters
In-Lake Bioreactors for the Treatment of Acid Mine Water in Pit Lakes
Biosorption as Main Uranium Accumulation Mechanism in Wetlands
Integrated System to Biological Solubilization and Precipitation of Heavy Metals
Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage by Means of Biological and Chemical Methods
Bioremediation In Situ of an Alkaline Soil Polluted with Heavy Metals
Mine Waste Stabilization with Biosludge and Ca Carbonate Residues: Column Experiments
Application Possibility of Bentonite and Zeolite in Bioremediation
Biohydrometallurgical Processing of Flotation Tailings from Different Copper Mills
Enhancing Reductive Processes by Autochthonic Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria in Lignite Overburden Dumps
Bioremediation of Dredged Sediments Polluted by Heavy Metals
Laboratory Investigations on the Interactions of Soil, Water and Microorganisms with Manganese
Chemical Stabilisation Combined with Phytostabilisation Applied to Mine Waste Contaminated Soils in Hungary
Regulation of PCE-Dechlorinating Activity by Electrochemical Cultivation
Short Abstracts
Sulfate Reduction under Acidic Conditions in High Rate Bioreactor Systems for Treatment of Mining and Metallurgical Waste and Process Water
Hydrolysed Cellulose Material as Sulfate Reduction Electron Donor to Treat Metal- and Sulfate Containing Waste Water
Interfacial Processes (edited by W. Sand)
Keynote Paper
Recent Advances in Electron Transfer Between Biofilms and Metals
Extended Abstracts
Investigations on the Sorting of Very Fine Particles by Biocoagulation
Effect of LPS Removal on Electrophoretic Softness of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Cells
Is the Quorum Sensing Type AI-1 System of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Involved in its Attachment to Mineral Surfaces?
Pyrite Surface Alteration of Synthetic Single Crystals as Effect of Microbial Activity and Crystallographic Orientation
The Catalytic Influence of Sulfolobus metallicus in the Bioleaching of Chalcopyrite: Role of Attached and Planktonic Population
Bioflotation of a Black Shale Copper Ore
Surface Hydrophobicity of an Acidophilic Heterotrophic Bacterium of Mine Origin under Metal Stress
Selective Coagulation in Chalcopyrite/Pyrite Mineral System Using Acidithiobacillus Group Bacteria
Combined Atomic Force and Fluorescence Microscopy of Biofilms formed by Leaching Bacteria on Opaque Substrata
Novel Steel Corrosion Protection by Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) - Biofilm-Induced Corrosion Inhibition
Inhibition of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion of Mild Steel and Stainless Steel 316 by an Organic Inhibitor
Short Abstracts
Influence of Growth Substrate and Attachment Substratum on EPS and Biofilm Formation by Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
Study of the Attachment Behaviour of Different Strains of Acidithiobacillus spp. to Pyrite
Molecular and Microbiology
Keynote Paper
Biomining in the Post-Genomic Age: Advances and Perspectives
Extended Abstracts
Concentrate Mineralogy Dictates the Composition of Bioleaching Microbial Consortia
Geographical Distribution and Diversity of Moderately Thermophilic Members of the Thermoplasmatales
Microbial Ecology of Leptospirillum spp. in Rio Tinto, a Model of Interest to Biohydrometallurgy
Molecular Assessment of Microbial Diversity and Community Structure at Uranium Mines of Jaduguda, India
Related Arsenic Resistance Transposons Occur in Leptospirilli Isolated from Different Continents
Interactions of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans with Heavy Metals, Various Forms of Arsenic and Pyrite
Regulation of the Arsenic Oxidation Encoding Genes of a Moderately Acidophilic, Facultative Chemolithoautotrophic Thiomonas sp.
Ferrous Iron Oxidation by Salt-Tolerant "Thiobacillus prosperus"
Differential Genetic Expression in Heap Bioleaching of Low-Grade Copper Sulphide Ore at Escondida Mine, Chile
Insights into the Metabolism and Ecophysiology of Three Acidithiobacilli by Comparative Genome Analysis
Involvement of Iron Oxidation Enzyme System in Sulfur Oxidation of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270
The Effect of Total Iron Concentration and Iron Speciation on the Rate of Ferrous Iron Oxidation Kinetics of Leptospirillum ferriphilum in Continuous Tank Systems
Identification, Some Characterizations and Bioleaching Application of an Iron-Oxidizing Bacterium, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans KLipis-3-1 Isolated from Malaysia
Quantification of Biomining Microorganisms Using Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Chalcopyrite and Bornite Differentially Affect Protein Synthesis in Planktonic Cells of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
Temperature Effects on the Iron Oxidation Kinetics of a Leptospirillum ferriphilum Dominated Culture at pH Below One
Metabolism Peculiarities of Bacteria of the Genus Sulfobacillus
Isolation, Characterization and Phylogenetic Analysis of Acidiphilium-Like Bacteria from Acid Mine Drainage
Bacterial Oxidation of Elemental Sulfur: Changes in Oxidation Kinetics
Quantification of Microorganisms Involved in Cemented Layer Formation in Sulfidic Mine Waste Tailings (Freiberg, Saxony, Germany)
Analysis of the Microbial Community in the Leachate Collected from an Experimental Bioleaching Column by Cloning and RFLP
The Diversity of Benthic Microorganisms in Acidic Mine Lake Sediments
Microbial Diversity in an Iron Oxidation Tank of an AMD Treatment Plant at an Abandoned Sulphur Mine
Reduction of Soluble and Solid Ferric Iron by Acidiphilium SJH
Development of an Extremophilic Iron Oxidizing Consortium and a Fixed Film Bioreactor for Generation of Ferric Lixivient
Enrichment of Chromium-Reducing Bacteria Using Potential-Controlled Electrochemical Cultivation
Research on isc Operon in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270
Effect of Sulphate Concentration on the Community Structure and Activity of Sulphate Reducing Bacteria
Kinetics of Ferrous Iron Oxidation by Moderately Thermophilic Microorganisms
High-Level Resistance to Cobalt and Nickel in Cuban Serratia marcescens Strains Isolated from Serpentine Deposits
Microbial Diversity in a Pilot Plant for Producing Iron Hydroxysulfates
Iron Homeostasis Strategies in Acidophilic Iron Oxidizers: Comparative Genomic Analyses
Discovery of Small Regulatory RNAs Extends Our Understanding of Gene Regulation in the Acidithiobacillus Genus
Monitoring of Microbial Community Inhabiting a Low-Grade Copper Sulphide Ore by Quantitative Real-Time PCR Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes
Bacterial Activity at Low Temperature in Cultures Derived from a Low-Grade Copper Sulphide Bioleaching Heap at the Escondida Mine, Chile
Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Sulfate Reducing Bacteria in a Brazilian Acid Mine Drainage
C-di-GMP Pathway in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans: Analysis of Putative Diguanylate Cyclases (DGCs) and Phosphodiesterases (PDEs) Bifunctional Proteins
Searching for Useful Bacteria on Chalcopyrite Leaching from Japanese Abandoned Mines
Comparative Bioreduction of Fe(III) with Geobacter metallireducens and Bacillus infernus
The Use of CARD-FISH to Evaluate the Quantitative Microbial Ecology Involved in the Continuous Bioleaching of a Cobaltiferrous Pyrite
Short Abstracts
The Effect of Multiple Stresses on Sulfolobus-like Cultures in Bioleaching Systems: Super-Imposing Stress Responses to Metal Concentration and Solids Loading
A New Acid-Stable, Fe-Oxidizing/O2-Reducing Supercomplex Spanning Both Inner and Outer Membranes, Isolated from the Extremophile Acidithiobacillus
Transporter Protein Genes are Up-Regulated by Covellite in Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans
Up- and Down-Regulated Genes in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Exposed to Chalcopyrite
Isolation and Characterization of a Psychrotolerant Arsenite-Oxidizing Bacterium from a Gold Mine in Zloty Stok, Poland
Arsenic Hypertolerant Bacteria Isolated from Gold Mine Rocks Biofilms
Microbial Communities in Acid Mine Water from Two Different Copper Mines in China
Iron Oxidation and Bioleaching Potential at Low Temperatures
Microbial Community of the Talvivaara Demonstration-Scale Bioheap
Isolation and Characterisation of Microorganisms from Copper Bearing Black Shale of Lubin Mine (Poland)
Analysis of the Microbial Community in an Acid Ground Water Characterized by Sulfate Reduction Activity
Characterization of New Iron Oxidizing Bacteria from an Acid Mine Water Treatment Plant
Elemental Sulfur Oxidation in Acidiphilium spp.
Sulfur Oxidation and Coupled Iron Reduction at Low Temperatures
Comparison of Microbiological Populations of Mineral Heaps and Mine Wastes of Differing Ages in Active and Abandoned Copper Mines
Proteomic Studies in Acidthiobacillus ferrooxidans Cells Induced by Synthetic Acyl-Homoserine Lactones
Biosorption and -Accumulation (edited by S. Willscher)
Keynote Paper
Biological Removal of Ions: Principles and Applications
Extended Abstracts
Lead and Gold Removal Using Sugar-Beet Pectin Gels with and without Immobilized Fucus Vesiculosus
A Novel Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis Catalyst Using Palladized Biomass of Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacteria
Sorption of Co Ions on Biogenic Mn Oxides Produced by a Mn-Oxidizing Fungus, Paraconiothyrium sp.-like Strain
The Role of Carotenoid Pigments in Cr(VI) Tolerance, Biosorption and Bioaccumulation by Rhodotorula mucilaginosa UCM Y-1776 and its Mutants
Biosorption of Heavy Metals by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolated from a Petroleum Contaminated Site
Waste Biomass Characterization and Metal-Biomass Interactions Study
Waste Fungal Biomass for Mercury Biosorption - Column Studies
Removal of Copper and Uranium from Contaminated Waters in Biosorption Columns
Sorption of Copper Ions by Biogenic Iron Sulphides
Mercury Sorption on Chitosan
Heavy Metal Tolerance and Copper Uptake in Yeast Isolated from Patagonia/ Argentina
Characterization of Cellulosic Biomass Loaded with Iron and Arsenic Using High Energy X-Rays
Biorecovery of Gold from Jewellery Wastes by Escherichia Coli and Biomanufacture of Active Au-Nanomaterial
Biorecovery of Platinum Group Metals from Secondary Sources
A Novel Fuel Cell Catalyst for Clean Energy Production Based on a Bionanocatalyst