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Bugs banquet: the mining industry is investing heavily in bioleaching to extract metals but will it be enough to satisfy demand? Richard Corfield takes a closer look at the emerging technology.(Mining)

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From: Chemistry and Industry
Date: 20061204
Author:Corfield, Richard

Far in the southwestern corner of Spain, in the heart of the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalucia, is a land where the streams run red as blood. These are the mines of Rio Tinto, rumoured to be the fabled mines that inspired H. Rider Haggard to write King Solomon's Mines. They are very ancient. Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, describes how gold was extracted from the waters of the Rio Tinto and its tributaries. But gold is not the only mineral treasure in the Rio Tinto; copper too is important and its distinctive hues also tint the waters of the region.

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Bugs banquet: the mining industry is investing heavily in bioleaching to extract metals but will it be enough to satisfy demand? Richard Corfield takes a closer look at the emerging technology.(Mining)

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