In 2008, Zhou, et al. described the isolation of the organism Ferroplasma thermophilum L1T from a chalcopyrite column reactor that was inoculated with acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Daye copper mine in China’s Hubei province.
In 2008, Zhou, et al. documented the isolation of Ferroplasma thermophilum L1T from a chalcopyrite column reactor that was contaminated by acid mine drainage (AMD) from the Daye copper mine in Hubei province, China.