Development of biosensors and bioindicators for gold exploration and processing in Australia

澳大利亚黄金勘探和加工生物传感器和生物指示剂的开发

• 批准号: LP100200102
• 负责人: A/Prof Frank Reith
• 金额: $ 30.45万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2011-01-21 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP100200102
• 关键词: Development; biosensors; bioindicators; gold; exploration

In times of increasing demand for gold and shrinking rates of discovery in Australia, biosensor and bioindicator techniques deliver significant advantages to the Australian mining industry and allow it to retain its international competiveness. The new understanding of the biogeochemical behaviour of gold in soils and other weathered materials developed in a previous ARC Linkage Project enables the development of biosensor and bioindicator technology that will allow mineral explorers to differentiate mineralised from non-mineralised zones using specific (meta) genomic community responses. The new technology will provide cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable techniques for improving exploration success and optimising ore processing.

在澳大利亚黄金需求不断增加和发现率不断下降的情况下，生物传感器和生物指示剂技术为澳大利亚采矿业带来了巨大的优势，并使其保持了国际竞争力。在先前的ARC链接项目中，对土壤和其他风化材料中黄金的地球化学行为的新认识使生物传感器和生物指示剂技术的开发成为可能，这将使矿产勘探者能够使用特定的（Meta）基因组群落反应区分矿化区和非矿化区。新技术将提供具有成本效益和环境可持续性的技术，以提高勘探成功率和优化矿石加工。