Exploring the potential of natural microbial tools for efficacious biomining

This proposal focuses on understanding molecular processes crucial for selecting bioengineered organisms and developping biomolecular approaches for the purification of zinc, iron and REE. This knowledge is fundamental to evolving sustainable biomining techniques and tools to meet the demand for remediating abandoned mining areas around the world. Furthermore, this proposal benefits from a companion project on geobiology, which focuses on the uptake of REEs from microbial hydrozincite, as part of an ongoing PhD thesis.