Cobalt |
Recovery from laterite tailings |
Bioleaching |
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans and Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
|
Marrero et al. [172]
|
Intracellular, 550 nm average, flakes |
Biomining and nanomaterials |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Srivastava and Constanti [173]
|
Copper |
Copper bioleaching performed industrially |
Bioleaching |
Consortium of bacteria, archea, mesophiles, and thermophiles. |
Gentina and Acevedo [174]
|
Extracellular nanoparticles, 3–10 nm, spherical |
Nanomaterials - Antifungal |
Stereum hirsutum |
Cuevas et al. [175]
|
Dysprosium |
Intracellular accumulation of Dy |
Biomining and bioremediation |
Penidiella sp. T9
|
Horiike and Yamashita [176]
|
Europium |
Accumulation on cell surface |
Biomining and bioremediation |
Chlorella vulgaris |
Ozaki et al. [177]
|
Gold |
Ultra-efficient recovery from acidic leachate obtained from jewelry waste |
Biomining |
E. coli, Desulfovibrio desulfuricans
|
Deplanche and Macaskie [151]
|
Nanoclusters of various sizes and shapes depending on conditions |
Nanomaterials – catalytic and medicinal |
Shewanella haliotis |
Zhu et al. [153]
|
Iron |
Recovery of iron from iron-containing minerals |
Bioleaching |
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans |
Marrero et al. [178]
|
Extracellular, 20 nm average, flakes |
Nanomaterials |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Srivastava and Constanti [173]
|
Lithium |
Lithium solubilization from various ores |
Bioleaching |
Aspergillus niger and Rhodotorula rubra
|
Marcincakova et al. [138], [139]
|
Lithium nanoparticles formed intracellularly, 750 nm average size |
Biomining and nanomaterials |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Srivastava and Constanti [173]
|
Nickel |
Recovery from laterite tailings |
Bioleaching |
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans and Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
|
Marrero et al. [172]
|
Extracellular, 3 nm average, dense polygons |
Nanomaterials |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Srivastava and Constanti [173]
|
Palladium |
Monodisperse, small (4–5 nm) nanoparticles were observed |
Nanomaterials - catalytic |
E. coli |
Zhu et al. [149]
|
Intracellular accumulation of palladium nanoparticles |
Biomining |
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, Bacillus benzeovorans |
Omajali et al. [150]
|
Platinum |
Extracellular nanoparticles, 5–30 nm |
Nanomaterials - catalytic |
Fusarium oxysporum |
Syed and Ahmad [145]
|
Intracellular accumulation of platinum nanoparticles |
Biomining |
Acinetobacter calcoaceticus |
Gaidhani et al. [147]
|
Rhodium |
Extracellular, 10 nm average, spherical |
Nanomaterials – catalytic |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Srivastava and Constanti [173]
|
Ruthenium |
Extracellular, 3 nm average, dense polygons |
Nanomaterials – catalytic |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Srivastava and Constanti [173]
|
Selenium |
Extracellular, rod-shaped Se nanoparticles, average size 17 nm |
Nanomaterials |
Streptomyces bikiniensis |
Ahmad et al. [179]
|
Silver |
Extracellular nanoparticles, 10–100 nm, protein functionalized |
Nanomaterials – catalytic and medicinal |
Cladosporium cladosporioides |
Balaji et al. [180]
|
Silver uptake capabilities of up to 153 mg/L were observed |
Biomining |
Trichoderma harzianum |
Cecchi et al. [181]
|
Technetium |
Reduction of Tc(VII) to Tc(IV) via various reducing agents |
Biomining and bioremediation |
Fe(III)-reducing, sulfate-reducing, fermentative, aerobic, and anaerobic bacteria |
Chernyh et al. [182]
|
Tellurium |
Intracellular, rod-shaped Te nanoparticles, 20 × 180 nm |
Nanomaterials and biomining |
Bacillus sp. |
Zare et al. [124]
|
Uranium |
Uranium bioprecipitation engineered for different cellular loci |
Biomining |
Deinococcus radiodurans, E. coli
|
Kulkarni et al. [142]
|
Ytterbium |
Accumulation on cell surface |
Biomining and bioremediation |
S. cerevisiae |
Jiang et al. [183]
|
Zinc |
A 75% Zn extraction was obtained from Zn-plant leach residues under optimized conditions |
Bioleaching |
Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans |
Sethurajan et al. [184]
|