Gold Loving Bacteria

[Auggie]

I thought I'd pass along this very interesting article about a bacteria that consumes and digests auric chloride (AuCl) into pure gold, and apparently it's fast. Unfortunately, according to the study, it's not cost effective to employ on a large scale. I'm sure someone bright will figure it out though.

"At a time when the value of gold has reached an all-time high, Michigan State University researchers have discovered a bacterium’s ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity is key to creating 24-karat gold.“Microbial alchemy is what we’re doing – transforming gold from something that has no value into a solid, precious metal that’s valuable,” said Kazem Kashefi, assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics."

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2012/gold-loving-bacteria-show-superman-strength/

 

[patnor1011]

Old news.
Plenty of threads about this on forum already.
Search is the key.

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=16589&hilit=gold+bacteria

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=15848&hilit=gold+bacteria

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=15762&hilit=gold+bacteria

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=14406&start=80&hilit=gold+bacteria

 

[Auggie]

Oops, pardon me.

 

[Justincase]

I do love extremophile's and always wounder about the metabolic chemistry that alow them to use energy sources apart from the O2 and Fuel method.Apart from the insight they give us on the possible extraterrestrial life there may be.
Defiantly a possible cog in a nanite gold recovery mechanism.from what I have read about the possible mechanic's of such thing they are trying to use basic building blocks from nature such as parts microbes and bacteria to construct some very cunning devices.
Now we just have to find a way to make it mobile enough that they can be released and instructed to return once they have scraped enough AU or similar element from the enviroment.
That would be a slight improvement on the Ion collecting nanite beads some one posted about a week or two ago.
All beyond fascinating