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Iron-storing bacteria may be used to mine gold, copper

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | June 14, 2020 | 7:03 am Education Exploration USA Iron Ore 

Arash Komeili, a Bakar Fellow at the University of California - Berkeley, just discovered that some species of aquatic bacteria may help miners in finding new ways to extract metals for commercial value or environmental cleanup.  In an article prepared...

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