The course of “Mineral Biotechnologies I” is focused on introductory
information on utilization and application of mineral biotechnologies in
research as well as operational practice. The course deals in detail with the
issue of mineral biotechnologies. The individual lectures concentrate on
environmental biogenic processes, basic principles of mineral biotechnologies,
general characteristics of microbial metabolisms of the individual
microorganisms. Next, it deals with the study of potential application of
biogenic processes into technological procedures of treatment and processing
of selected sulfitic ores.
Syllabus
1. Introduction, Biotechnologies and their development
2. Environmental biogenic processes as basic principles of mineral
biotechnologies
3. Mineral biotechnologies
4. Chemical and biological principle of element cycle in the biosphere
5. The course of environmental processes on deposits with sulfitic
mineralization
6. Biological-chemical leaching of pyrite (FeS2)
7. Biological-chemical leaching of arsenopyrite (FeAsS)
8. Biological-chemical leaching of Cu sulphides
9. Biological-chemical leaching of antimonite (Sb2S3)
10. Biological-chemical leaching of sphalerite (ZnS)
11. Biological-chemical leaching of galenite (PbS)
12. Biological-chemical leaching of sulfitic ores on the surface of mining
plants
13. Non-extraction – dressing methods of utilizing biological-chemical
oxidation processes in the processing of sulfitic concentrates
14. Study of potential application of biogenic processes into technological
procedures of treatment and processing of selected sulfitic ores
15. Consequences of environmental processes in the biotopes of waste dump
sulfitic deposits from their mining
16. Identification of biogenic processes in old mine burdens
Literature
Fečko P. a kol.: Environmentální biotechnologie, VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2004
Kušnierová M., Fečko P.:Minerálne biotechnológie I., VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2001
Luptáková A., Kušnierová M., Fečko P.: Minerálne biotechnológie II., VŠB-
TU Ostrava,2002
Kadulová J., Virčíková E.: Mineralne biotechnológie III., VŠB-TU
Ostrava, 2003
Amils R., Bllester A.: Biohydrometallurgy and the environment toward the
minig of the 21st century, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1999
Sborník: Recyklace odpadů VIII, VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2004
Sborník: Recyklace odpadů VII, VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2003
Atlas, R.M.: Microbiology, Fundamentals and Applications. 2nd Ed.
Macmillan Publishing Comp., New York, 1988
Fečko P.: Netradiční způsoby úpravy černouhelných kalů, VŠB-TU Ostrava,
2001
Advised literature
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