Besides Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, which can extract metal from metal sulfides, several other microorganisms such as silicate bacteria Bacillus mucilaginosus and fungi Aspergillus niger have been found to be progress in mineral bioleaching.

As a crucial bacteria in bioleaching,the environment conditions ,such as temperature,pH and so on,affect the activation of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans.

The method of bio-metallurgy is capable of converting insoluble phosphate resources into water or citric acid soluble ones.

The application of bioinformatics is described in bio-metallurgy researches and the great acceleration of bioinformatics is forecasted to the bio-metallurgy research.

Role of Bacterial Mixture in Biohydrometallurgy;

An outline is made of slurry electrolysis, biohydrometallurgy, film separation technology and mechanical activation leaching, and their application and development in the future are introduced.

The paper introduced the application of biohydrometallurgy on low-grade ore and tailings,the microorganism in metallurgy.

Progress on microbial screening and culturing in biological metallurgy;

In this paper principle of gold's biological metallurgy is introduced, development of biological metallurgy in foreign countries and China is reviewed, some problems in the studying and developing process of biological metallurgy which need to be solved are pointed out as well.

caldus) is one of the predominant biomining bacteria,which shows application prospect in biological metallurgy.

Researches and Application of Biometallurgy for Refractory Gold Ores;