Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans

Silverman, M.P. Lundrgen, D.G.,1959, Studies on Chemosynthetic Iron Bacterium Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. J.Bacteriol. 78 326-331. 

This principal environmental problem posed by coal-cleaning waste is that the pyrite and marcasite in the waste are oxidized to sulfuric acid in the presenee of air, water, Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans, and Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. The sulfuric acid is usually sufficiently concentrated to dissolve numerous metallic constituents and large quantities of iron from the pyrite in the leachate. Any ECT intended to prevent sulfuric acid formation must eliminate either the air, the water, or the oxidizable sulfur compounds in the waste, or inactive Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans and Thiobacillus ferrooxidans by maintaining alkaline conditions. Post-treatment of pile drainage comprises ECTs designed to neutralize the acid in the effluent and remove the metal ions by some sort of precipitation, adsorption, flocculation, or ion-exchange phenomenon. 

Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans and Ferrobacillus sulfooxidans, are all now considered to be T. ferrooxidans. 

Din, G.A., Suzuki, I. and Lees, H., 1967. Carbon dioxide fixation and phosphoenol-pyruvate carboxylase in Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. Can. J. Microbiol., 13 1413— 1420. 

Maciag, J.W. and Lundgren, D.G., 1964. Carbon dioxide fixation in the chemoautotroph Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 17 603—607. 

Margalith,P., Silver, M. and Lundgren, D.G., 1966. Sulfur oxidation by the iron bacterium Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. J. Bacteriol., 92 1706—1709. 

Shafia, F., Brinson, K.R., Heinzman, M.W. and Brady, J.M., 1972. Transition of chemo-lithotrophic Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans to obligate organotrophy and metabolic capabilities of glucose-grown cells. J. Bacteriol., Ill 56—65. 

Unz, R.F. and D.G. Lundgren, 1961. A comparative nutritional study of three chemo-autotrophic bacteria Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans, Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and Thiobacillus thiooxidans. Soil Sci., 92 302—313. 

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