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How microbes contribute to the formation of giant copper deposits

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | January 25, 2019 | 9:26 pm Base Metals Canada Europe Copper 

A paper published in the journal Geology predicts that scientists are close to proving that microbes have control over the precipitation of metals in near-surface environments. The authors of the study reached this conclusion based on what they have seen...

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