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Research Week: Researchers could use microbes to clean mine sites (video)

Laurentian’s Nadia Mykytczuk explains

Laurentian’s Nadia Mykytczuk, the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation research chair in Biomining, Bioremediation and Science Communication and her team are researching ways to use microbes to clean old mine sites and extract metals from those sites. 

Check out the video above to learn how using biotechnologies, mining companies can clean up the environment, and even extract new value (metals) from mine waste. 


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