v mention the organisms involved in bio-mining?
Biomining is a new approach to the extraction of desired minerals from ores being explored by the mining industry in the past few years. Microorganisms are used to leach out the minerals, rather than the traditional methods of extreme heat or toxic chemicals, which have a deleterious effect on the environment. The bacteria are involved in biomining and are among the most remarkable life forms known. They are described as chemolithotrophic, which basically means rock eating, that is they obtain their energy from the oxidation of inorganic substances. Many of them are also autotrophic that is they utilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the carbon source. These microorganisms live in very inhospitable environments, which other microbes would find it impossible to survive or tolerate; for example the sulphuric acid and soluble metals concentrations are often very high. Some thermophilic microorganisms require temperatures above 50 degree Celsius (122 degree Fahrenheit), and a few stra
