title: Bioleaching of arsenic-rich gold concentrates by bacterial flora before and after mutation.
abstract: In order to improve the bioleaching efficiency of arsenic-rich gold concentrates, a mixed bacterial flora had been developed, and the mutation breeding method was adopted to conduct the research. The original mixed bacterial flora had been enrichedin acid mine drainage of Dexing copper mine, Jiangxi Province, China. It was induced by UV (ultraviolet), ultrasonic, and microwave, and their combination mutation. The most efficient bacterial flora after mutation was collected for further bioleaching of arsenic-rich gold concentrates. Results indicated that the bacterial flora after mutation by UV 60 s combined with ultrasonic 10 min had the best oxidation rate of ferrous, the biggest density of cells, and the most activity of total protein. During bioleaching of arsenic-rich gold concentrates, the density of the mutant bacterial cells reached to 1.13 × 10⁸ cells/mL at 15 days, more than 10 times compared with that of the original culture. The extraction of iron reached to 95.7% after 15 days, increased by 9.9% compared with that of the original culture. The extraction of arsenic reached to 92.6% after 12 days, which was increased by 46.1%. These results suggested that optimum combined mutation could improve leaching ability of the bacterial flora more significantly.
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, 2999 North Renmin Road, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Xuehui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, 2999 North Renmin Road, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Xuewu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, 2999 North Renmin Road, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, 2999 North Renmin Road, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoguang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, 2999 North Renmin Road, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Awad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abdelgadir
authors.affiliation: College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Donghua University, 2999 North Renmin Road, Shanghai 201620, China.
authors.forename: Jianshe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001151:Arsenic / Q000737:chemistry*; D001419:Bacteria / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D002681:China; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry; D009154:Mutation; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction
chemical_list: D006046:Gold; D007501:Iron; D001151:Arsenic