financially supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program(Nos.2012AA061501,2012AA061502,and 2012AA061504);the National Basic Research Program of China(Nos.2010CB630905 and2010CB630906);and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51404033)
In the past decade, progress in the field of biohydrometallurgy had been significant. A total of 17 novel biomining microorganisms were discovered, and eight copper heap bioleaching plants and 11 gold biooxidation pla...