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Pretreatment of e-waste and mutation of alkali-tolerant cyanogenic bacteria promote gold biorecovery.
Bioresource technology - 1 Jan 2014
Natarajan Gayathri, Ting Yen-Peng
Abstract excerpt
Gold was recovered from electronic scrap material (ESM) as gold-cyanide complex by Chromobacterium violaceum which produces cyanide as a secondary metabolite. The effect of pretreatment and mutation of alkali-tolerant bacteria was examined. Pretreatment dissolved most of the base metals, thereby...
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