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

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

¹U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, 4165 Spruance Road, San Diego, CA 92101, USA

²U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Curtin Road, Building 3702, University Park, PA 16802, USA

³U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 919 Kerr Research Drive, Ada, OK 74820, USA

⁴U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA

⁵U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Mailstop 963, Denver, CO 80225, USA

⁶U.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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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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