Bioleaching: let's see how it works

Bioleaching is a recycling technique that uses bacteria to recover some metals from mineral processing waste or used electronic equipment.

In this video, discover how this process works, which aims to reduce the consumption of primary resources to avoid their exhaustion.

This video is part of "Minerals'got talent" a European travelling exhibition.

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[JohnSmith-tdhd]

Wow. Finally! That's incredible :) I hope to see a lot more use of bacteria to solve these sort of most difficult chemical problems, including cleaning up oil spills.

[nurselilly]

Great video, cheers to everyone involved in the production :)

[bhuvanaaaaa]

wow! thank you.... I admire your efforts and creativity... keep it up

[marrastreamheart]

Please make the Pie Chart actually represent the percentage otherwise good video fam and great animation

[lucaapolonio]

thanks! been doing some research for a project and this really helped me understand

[icheesey]

Great video, but when you said that it produces 25% of copper on Earth, you used a pi chart that was not representative of 25%.

[solankidhruvi]

very wonderful video to undestand before the wholw theory of it. keep it up😇

[zynomac]

why can't we use this method to extract gold from circuit boards??

[cube]

*Talks about bacteria*
*shows viruses*

[freshd]

That voice is way too annoying to watch the whole thing