Tailings microbial community profile and prediction of its functionality in basins of tungsten mine.

ABSTRACT: In a circular economy concept, where more than 300 million tons of mining and quarrying wastes are produced annually, those are valuable resources, supplying metals that are extracted today by other processes, if innovative methods and processes for efficient extraction of these elements are applied. This work aims to assess microbiological and chemical spatial distribution within two tailing basins from a tungsten mine, using a MiSeq approach targeting the 16S rRNA gene, to relate microbial composition and function with chemical variability, thus, providing information to enhance the efficiency of the exploitation of these secondary sources. The tailings sediments core microbiome comprised members of family Anaerolineacea and genera Acinetobacter, Bacillus, Cellulomonas, Pseudomonas, Stre

SUBMITTER: Chung AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6925229 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature