**Acknowledgements**

The authors acknowledge Dr. Kwadwo Osseo-Asare and Dr. Grace Ofori-Sarpong for inspiring this work and providing the fungus, *Phanerochaete chrysosporium*, Dr. Takashi Kaneta for simultaneous determination of LiP and MnP released from *P. chrysosporium*, and Dr. Megan Becker, Dr. Susan Harrison for observing QEMSCAN map.

This work was funded by JSPS KAKENHI JP18K19045, JP 19KK0135, JSPS-NRF Bilateral Program JPJSBP 120196505, and Core-to-Core Program JPJSCCB 20200003.

## **Author details**

Keiko Sasaki\* and Kojo T. Konadu Department of earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

\*Address all correspondence to: keikos@mine.kyushu-u.ac.jp

© 2020 The Author(s). Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

*Biotechnological Approaches to Facilitate Gold Recovery from Double Refractory Gold Ores DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94334*
