What do we really know about the role of microorganisms in iron sulfide mineral formation?

A Picard, A Gartman, PR Girguis - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Iron sulfide mineralization in low-temperature systems is a result of biotic and abiotic
processes, though the delineation between these two modes of formation is not always …

Microbial polysaccharides template assembly of nanocrystal fibers

CS Chan, G De Stasio, SA Welch, M Girasole… - Science, 2004 - science.org
Biological systems can produce extraordinary inorganic structures and morphologies. The
mechanisms of synthesis are poorly understood but are of great interest for engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Metal sources and fluid pathways of karst-hosted Mississippi Valley-type Zn–Pb deposits in the fold-thrust belt: A case study of the Changdong deposit in the …

L Yue, Y Liu, Y Song, W Ma, B Tang - Ore Geology Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The metal sources and fluid pathways for Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) Zn–Pb deposits in
fold-thrust belts remain open topics of debate. To develop a more comprehensive …

Multi-metal contaminant dynamics in temporarily flooded soil under sulfate limitation

FA Weber, A Voegelin, R Kretzschmar - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009 - Elsevier
In many river basins, floodplain soils have accumulated a variety of metal contaminants,
which might be released during periods of flooding. We investigated the dynamics of copper …

Direct observation of heavy metal-mineral association from the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex: Implications for metal transport and bioavailability

MF Hochella Jr, JN Moore, CV Putnis, A Putnis… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2005 - Elsevier
Two sets of samples from riverbeds and adjacent floodplains, separated by 80 river
kilometers, were collected from the Clark Fork River Superfund Complex, Montana,(the …

The geomicrobiology of ore deposits

G Southam, JA Saunders - Economic Geology, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Bacterial metabolism, involving redox reactions with carbon, sulfur, and metals, appears to
have been important since the dawn of life on Earth. In the Archean, anaerobic bacteria …

Trace and minor element variations and sulfur isotopes in crystalline and colloform ZnS: Incorporation mechanisms and implications for their genesis

K Pfaff, A Koenig, T Wenzel, I Ridley, LH Hildebrandt… - Chemical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Various models have been proposed to explain the formation mechanism of colloform
sphalerite, but the origin is still under debate. In order to decipher influences on trace …

Low‐frequency electrical response to microbial induced sulfide precipitation

D Ntarlagiannis, KH Williams, L Slater… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the sensitivity of low‐frequency electrical measurements to microbe‐
induced metal sulfide precipitation. Three identical sand‐packed monitoring columns were …

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

CD Church, RT Wilkin, CN Alpers, RO Rye… - Geochemical …, 2007 - Springer
Sediments recovered from the flooded mine workings of the Penn Mine, a Cu-Zn mine
abandoned since the early 1960s, were cultured for anaerobic bacteria over a range of pH …

Ultrastructure, aggregation-state, and crystal growth of biogenic nanocrystalline sphalerite and wurtzite

JW Moreau, RI Webb… - American …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this study, we investigated the size, submicrometer-scale structure, and aggregation state
of ZnS formed by sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in a SRB-dominated biofilm growing on …