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This study demonstrated the bioleaching of laterites from Brazil with the addition of elemental sulfur in 2-L stirred-tank bioreactors with pure and mixed cultures of <jats:italic>Acidithiobacillus<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Sulfobacillus<\/jats:italic> species under aerobic conditions. In particular, a potential disturbance of mineral dissolution under aerobic conditions by ferrous iron-oxidizing acidophiles likely introduced as contaminants in an applied bioleaching process was investigated with <jats:italic>Leptospirillum ferrooxidans<\/jats:italic> at 30\u00b0C and <jats:italic>Leptospirillum ferriphilum<\/jats:italic> at 40\u00b0C, at maintained pH 1.5 or without maintained pH leading to an increase in acidity (with pH values &amp;lt;1.0) due to the biological production of sulfuric acid. Despite the proportion of ferrous iron to the total amount of extracted iron in the solution being drastically reduced in the presence of <jats:italic>Leptospirillum<\/jats:italic> species, there was a negligible effect on the extraction efficiency of nickel and cobalt, which is positive news for laterite bioleaching under aerobic conditions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2024.1359019","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,9]],"date-time":"2024-04-09T05:00:36Z","timestamp":1712638836000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Do ferrous iron-oxidizing acidophiles (Leptospirillum spp.) disturb aerobic bioleaching of laterite ores by sulfur-oxidizing acidophiles (Acidithiobacillus spp.)?"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Stefanie A.","family":"Hetz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Axel","family":"Schippers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"104110","DOI":"10.1016\/j.resmic.2023.104110","article-title":"Rates of iron(III) reduction coupled to elemental sulfur or tetrathionate oxidation by acidophilic microorganisms and detection of sulfur intermediates","volume":"175","author":"Breuker","year":"2024","journal-title":"Res. 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