ABSTRACT
A faster depletion of high-grade ore deposits has necessitated the development of alternative efcient beneciation processes to treat low-grade ores. The benecial roles of microbes in the eld of mineral processing starting from mining, beneciation and metal extraction to efcient waste disposal have now been well recognised. Physicochemical methods of mineral
CONTENTS
1.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................1 1.2 Microbiological Aspects of Cell Adhesion to Mineral Substrates ..........3 1.3Biomineralisation and Biobeneciation of Clays ......................................4
