Table 1.

Microbial remediation of acid mine tailings wastes.

Isolate	Source of acid mine waste	Carbon source amended with the medium of growth	pH	Sulfate removed (%)	Metals removed	Reference
Consortium of Acidophiles	Copper mine tailings	–	2.29	–	Cu, Fe, Zn	Bryan et al., 2006
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans and Desulfomicrobium baculatum	Synthetic mine waste	Ethanol	3–4	90	As, Cu, Fe, Ni, Zn	Sahinkaya et al., 2015
Sulfate-reducing bacteria	Synthetic acid mine drainage	Chicken manure Dairy manure Sawdust	3.0–3.5	79.04 64.78 50.27	Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Zn	Zhang and Wang, 2014
Immobilized sulfate reducing bacteria sludge granules	Synthetic acid mine drainage	–	2.8	80.2	Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn	Zhang and Wang, 2016
Consortium of sulfate reducing bacteria	Synthetic wastewater	–	6.0	67	Cu, Cr, Ni, Zn	Kieu et al., 2011
Sulfate reducing bacteria	Synthetic wastewater and acid mine from copper mine	Lactate	2.75	61	Cu, Fe, Mn	Bai et al., 2013
Leptospirillum ferriphilum and Acidithiobacillus caldus	Chalcopyrite mines	–	2.0	–	Cu, Fe	Zhou et al., 2009