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i've always found iron bacteria fascinating, is it possible to cultivate and farm it?

• jjk166 4y ago
  It is, but the bacteria live off iron already in the water, increasing the amount of bacteria won't extract more iron. More generally though, there is an entire field of bioleaching[0] which does use bacteria to either mine material or more often recover extra minerals from mine waste products. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioleaching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioleaching