GeoBiotics, LLC and Kumba Resources (Pty) Ltd are jointly developing the GEOCOAT heap bioleaching technology and downstream processing technology for recovery of zinc from tailings at the Rosh Pinah Mine in Namibia. This paper outlines the development of a computer simulation for the bioleaching of sphalerite and the downstream processing. Computer modeling has shortened the product development...

Purpose. In order to fully exploit the metal and facilitate its method of processing, we need an accurate knowledge composition, granular distribution, association with unimportant penalizing elements that would like get rid of, compared distribution element extract by flotation method. Methodology. The present experimental work proposes approach mineralogical, chemical particle size characteri...

The adsorption and desorption characteristics of cadmium (Cd) in uncontaminated soils have been investigated numerous studies. However, similar studies on Cd-polluted from different sources, which exhibit complex physicochemical internal interactions between Cd the soil particles, are scarce. Therefore, order to elucidate polluted soils, six representative Cd-contaminated paddy samples were col...

Caenorhabditis elegans strains carrying stress-reporter green fluorescent protein transgenes were used to explore patterns of response to metals. Multiple stress pathways were induced at high doses by most metals tested, including members of the heat shock, oxidative stress, metallothionein (mtl) and xenobiotic response gene families. A mathematical model (to be published separately) of the gen...

Nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide gases together with dust are known as the major pollutants arising during the blasting operations using the ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) explosive at the Sungun surface mine, located in the northwest of Iran. The pollutants were monitored during some blasting operations at the mine. It was concluded that the gases and dust clouds initially went up to the ...

The acid-forming potential of lead/zinc (Pb/Zn) mine tailings at Lechang City of Guangdong Province was studied using both net acid generation (NAG) and acid-base accounting (ABA) methods. The pyritic and total sulfur contents of the tailings were 12.6% and 18.7%, respectively. The mean acid neutralization capacity (ANC) was 63.5 kg H2SO4/t while three oxidized tailings samples had an ANC less ...

Doing large-scale genomics experiments can be expensive, and so experimenters want to get the most information out of each experiment. To this end the Maximally Informative Next Experiment (MINE) criterion for experimental design was developed. Here we explore this idea in a simplified context, the linear model. Four variations of the MINE method for the linear model were created: MINE-like, MI...