Bioleaching of gold and copper from waste mobile phone PCBs by using a cyanogenic bacterium

Chromobacterium violaceum (C. violaceum), a cyanide generating bacterium has been used to leach out gold and copper from the waste mobile phone printed circuit boards (PCBs) containing ~34.5% Cu and 0.025% Au in YP (yeast extract and polypeptone with glycine) medium. The bioleaching was carried out...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chi, T., Lee, J., Pandey, B., Yoo, Kyoungkeun, Jeong, J.
Other Authors: na
Format: Conference Paper
Published: na 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66300