<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This paper is a contribution to quantification of bio-leached arsenic and antimony from mining waste collected from impoundment in Slovinky (Slovakia). Autochtonous fungal strain <italic>Aspergillus niger</italic> was used in all bioleaching experiments. The contents of arsenic and antimony in two different samples from the impoundment were 294.7 and 328.2 mg.kg−1 As and 225.3 and 285.7 mg.kg−1 Sb, respectively. After 21-day cultivation of <italic>Aspergillus niger</italic> on such contaminated substrates, this strain was capable to bioleach, bioaccumulate and biovolatilize both toxic elements.</abstract>

This paper is a contribution to quantification of bio-leached arsenic and antimony from mining waste collected from impoundment in Slovinky (Slovakia). Autochtonous fungal strain Aspergillus niger was used in all bioleaching experiments. The contents of arsenic and antimony in two different samples from the impoundment were 294.7 and 328.2 mg.kg−1 As and 225.3 and 285.7 mg.kg−1 Sb, respectively. After 21-day cultivation of Aspergillus niger on such contaminated substrates, this strain was capable to bioleach, bioaccumulate and biovolatilize both toxic elements.

Bioleaching of Arsenic and Antimony from Mining Waste

Department of Environmental Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Acta Environmentalica Universitatis Comenianae

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This paper is a contribution to quantification of bio-leached arsenic and antimony from mining waste collected from impoundment in Slovinky (Slovakia)....

Bioleaching of Arsenic and Antimony from Mining Waste

Publié en ligne: 09 mars 2017

Pages: 5 - 9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aeuc-2016-0001

Mots clés
Slovinky, arsenic, antimony, bioleaching, microscopic filamentous fungi, biovolatilization, bioaccumulation

© 2016 Slavomír Čerňanský et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Bioleaching of Arsenic and Antimony from Mining Waste

Publié en ligne: 09 mars 2017

Pages: 5 - 9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aeuc-2016-0001

Mots clésSlovinky, arsenic, antimony, bioleaching, microscopic filamentous fungi, biovolatilization, bioaccumulation

© 2016 Slavomír Čerňanský et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Slovinky, arsenic, antimony, bioleaching, microscopic filamentous fungi, biovolatilization, bioaccumulation