Listed below are news stories relating to biotechnology in the mineral processing and extractive metallurgy industries. The date on which they were added to this page is in brackets.

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• Arsenic-eating Bacteria Found (Oct.16, 2008)
  


• Acquisition of the Biox Group (Oct.15, 2008)
  


• Biohydrometallurgy Symposium Special Issue Published (Oct.14, 2008)
  


• Special Issue on Bio and Hydrometallurgy Published (Dec.6, 2007)
  


• Indirect Bioleaching for Zinc and Lead Ores and Concentrates (Oct.26, 2007)
  


• Tasmania's Beaconsfield Gold Mine Resumes Production (Jul.5, 2007)
  


• Bio and Hydrometallurgical Processes Reviewed (May 7, 2007)
  


• Mintek-BacTech Gold Bio-leaching Plant Wins Environmental Award (Dec.12, 2006)
  


• Special Issue on BioHydrometallurgy Published (Aug.7, 2006)
  


• The Midas Bug - The Bacterial Alchemy of Gold Nuggets (Jul.17, 2006)
  


• Bactech To Evaluate Copper Opportunities (May 9, 2006)
  


• European BioMinE Project Aims to Provide Radical Changes in the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry for Cleaner, Safer and More Eco-Efficient Production (Feb.20, 2006)
  


• European BIOSHALE Project Looks for a Sustainable Way of Exploiting Black Shale Ores Using Biotechnologies (Feb.20, 2006)
  


• Bio and Hydrometallurgy Special Issue Published (Dec.13, 2005)
  


• Mintek Launches Major Bioleach R&D Projects (Aug.23, 2005)
  


• Australian Company Advances Heap Leach Projects (Jun.29, 2005)
  


• The Use of Biotechnology in the Minerals Industry (Mar.31, 2005)
  


• Sherlock Bay Nickel Corporation Limited (Feb.17, 2005)
  


• Outokumpu Technology Starts Marketing Titan's BioHeap^TM Leaching Technology (Feb.8, 2005)
  


• Talvivaara to Test Cold Bio-heap-leaching (Dec.29, 2004)
  


• AMIRA's Heap Bioleaching Research Project Begins 2nd Phase (Jul.22, 2004)
  


• Researchers Isolate Copper-Extracting Bacteria (Jun.23, 2004)
  


• Sherlock Bay BioHeap Agreement (Jun.1, 2004)
  


• Mintek and NICICO to Demonstrate Copper Heap Bioleach Process (May 6, 2004)
  


• Bioleaching Reviewed (Feb.5, 2004)
  


• BioteQ To Treat Acid Drainage At Two More Sites (Jan.15, 2004)
  


• Clean Copper Technology (Dec.23, 2003)
  


• Trends in Biotechnology (Dec.22, 2003)
  


• BacTech Signs MOU For China Gold Projects (Dec.18, 2003)
  


• Aker Kvaerner Awarded Contract for Fosterville Gold Plant (Dec.5, 2003)
  


• Minmet Acquires Pioneering Gold Biotechnology Process (Oct.14, 2003)
  


• Special Issue of Hydrometallurgy Journal (Oct.13, 2003)
  


• Bacteria to Clean Up Arsenic Pollution (Aug.29, 2003)
  


• Breakthrough in Zinc Extraction Technology (Aug.29, 2003)
  


• BioHeap pioneer profiled (Aug.6, 2003)
  


• Copper extraction by microbes (Aug.4, 2003)
  


• Perseverance opts for bacteria (Jun.6, 2003)
  


• SOQUEM Partnership Update - 79 Potential Sites Identified (Jun.2, 2003)
  


• Copper to Benefit from New Bioleach Project (May 30, 2003)
  


• Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialization Award 2003 to Indian Institute of Science team (May 9, 2003)
  


• BioteQ Proceeds to Construction at Falconbridges Raglan Mine (Apr.29, 2003)
  


• Phytomining of Nickel (Apr.8, 2003)
  


• Metallophytes- potential for mineral extraction and land decontamination (Apr.8, 2003)
  


• BRGM finds new friendly bug (Jan.27, 2003)
  


• Practical phytomining? (Jan.24, 2003)
  


• UMass Team to Study Bioremediation of Acid, Heavy Metals From Collapsed Mine (Dec.11, 2002)
  


• Special Issue of Minerals Engineering (Dec.2, 2002)
  


• Green nickel (Nov.22, 2002)
  


• Genome of Potential Bioremediation Agent Sequenced (Oct.15, 2002)
  


• Biotech MoU (Oct.15, 2002)
  


• Bacterial selenium removal (Sept.16, 2002)
  


• BRGM Finds New Friendly Bug (Sept.9, 2002)
  


• Scientists Use Alfalfa Plants to Harvest Nanoparticles of Gold (Aug.27, 2002)
  


• Titan Resource's BioHeap Process (Aug.13, 2002)
  


• CODELCO and Nippon Mining & Metals Co. form alliance (July 19, 2002)
  


• Hatch/Cade Idepe build bioleaching plant (July 15, 2002)
  


• Bioleaching moves forward (June 11, 2002)
  


• New biotech alliance for Codelco (June 11, 2002)
  


• BioHeap^TM study (June 11, 2002)
  


• Altered Algae Eat More Metal To Clean Up Lake Erie (May 20, 2002)
  


• Chinese deal near for Titan (Apr.22, 2002)
  


• New Bioreactor Plant in India (Feb.13, 2002)
  


• Titan reports big improvement in BioHeap^TM trials (Feb.4, 2002)