Mining.com featured research from UBC’s Okanagan campus that that may improve mining operations.
“Mining waste is an environmental concern in many parts of the world and currently costs a great deal of time and money to the companies that deal with it responsibly,” said Deborah Roberts, a professor of engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus. “Now that we have isolated the type of micro-organisms contributing to this issue, further research may help us manage them with antibiotics, like other bacterial infections.”
A similar story appeared in Mining Magazine.
