CV Lattes
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Instituto de Química (IQ) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Ciências Biológicas from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1976), master's at Botany from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1979) and ph.d. at Genetics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1989). Has experience in Microbiology, acting on the following subjects: acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, thiobacillus ferrooxidans, biohidrometalurgia, lixiviacao bacteriana and calcopirita. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Bacterial leaching is a dissolution process of metal sulfides in which the oxidative activity of some bacterial species, mainly Acithiobacillus ferrooxidans, play a central role. Since the finding of this and other microorganisms participation in the "natural" leaching of metals from low-grade ores (1950s) several industrial applications has been set up and a huge number of works about th…
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