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Mineralogical, Chemical and Biological Characterization of an Anaerobic Biofilm Collected from a Borehole in a Deep Gold Mine in South Africa

L. C. W. MacLean Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B7
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T. J. Pray Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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T. C. Onstott Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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E. L. Brodie Ecology Department, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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T. C. Hazen Ecology Department, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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G. Southam Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B7
Pages 491-504 | Received 15 Sep 2006, Accepted 30 May 2007, Published online: 01 Oct 2007

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