Bioleaching of gold, copper and nickel from waste cellular phone PCBs and computer goldfinger motherboards by two <italic>Aspergillus niger</italic>strains

<p>In an effort to develop alternate techniques to recover metals from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), this research evaluated the bioleaching efficiency of gold (Au), copper (Cu) and nickel (Ni) by two strains of <italic>Aspergillus niger</italic> in the presence...

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Main Authors: Jorge Enrique Madrigal-Arias, Rosalba Argumedo-Delira, Alejandro Alarcón, Ma. Remedios Mendoza-López, Oscar García-Barradas, Jesús Samuel Cruz-Sánchez, Ronald Ferrera-Cerrato, Maribel Jiménez-Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia 2015-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822015000300707&lng=en&tlng=en