An Archaeal Iron-Oxidizing Extreme Acidophile Important in Acid Mine Drainage

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Mar 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000sci...287.1796e&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 287, Issue 5459, pp. 1796-1799 (2000).

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A new species of Archaea grows at pH ~0.5 and ~40°C in slime streamers and attached to pyrite surfaces at a sulfide ore body, Iron Mountain, California. This iron-oxidizing Archaeon is capable of growth at pH 0. This species represents a dominant prokaryote in the environment studied (slimes and sediments) and constituted up to 85% of the microbial community when solution concentrations were high (conductivity of 100 to 160 millisiemens per centimeter). The presence of this and other closely related Thermoplasmales suggests that these acidophiles are important contributors to acid mine drainage and may substantially impact iron and sulfur cycles.

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