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Geological, petroleum & mining engineering
Author, co-author :
Vardanyan, Arevik ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Traitement et recyclage des matières minérales (y compris les sols) ; Department of Microbiology, SPC "Armbiotechnology" of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Khachatryan, Anna; Department of Microbiology, SPC "Armbiotechnology" of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Castro, Lau ; Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Willscher, Sabine; Faculty of Natural Sciences I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Gaydardzhiev, Stoyan ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Traitement et recyclage des matières minérales (y compris les sols)
Zhang, Ruiyong ; Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Corrosion and Biofouling, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Vardanyan, Narine ; Department of Microbiology, SPC "Armbiotechnology" of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Language :
English
Title :
Bioleaching of Sulfide Minerals by Leptospirillum ferriphilum CC from Polymetallic Mine (Armenia)
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