Bacterial Leaching: Extracting Gold from it''s ore? | Yoo ...
Apr 14, 2008· It is cheaper currently to use traditional smelting to extract copper from its ore, so bioleaching is not used in this case, but it is used more and more in gold extraction, since much of the ore has very little gold in it, so bioleaching is a cost effective option here (bioleaching is also used for refractory gold ore, that is, ore in which ...