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Microbial sulfate reduction and metal attenuation in pH 4 acid mine water

Clinton D Church1,2 email, Richard T Wilkin3 email, Charles N Alpers4 email, Robert O Rye5 email and R Blaine McCleskey6 email

U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, 4165 Spruance Road, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Curtin Road, Building 3702, University Park, PA 16802, USA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 919 Kerr Research Drive, Ada, OK 74820, USA

U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA

U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Mailstop 963, Denver, CO 80225, USA

U.S. Geological Survey, Suite 127, 3215 Marine Street, Boulder, CO 80303, USA

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Geochemical Transactions 2007, 8:10doi:10.1186/1467-4866-8-10

Published: 23 October 2007

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Quality assurance and quality control for water analyses; image collected using down-hole camera during sampling of the Penn mine workings.

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Additional File 2:

Table S1. Water-quality data for well GS-18, Penn Mine, California, 2001–02; Table S2. Statistical data for replicate water-quality samples, well GS-18, Penn Mine, California, 2002; Table S3. Quality assurance data for standard reference water samples.

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