Metal-eating microbes in African lake could solve mystery of the planet’s iron deposits

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An isolated, iron-rich bay in the heart of East Africa is offering scientists a rare glimpse back into Earth's primitive marine environment, and supports theories that tiny microbes created some of the world's largest ore deposits billions of years ago....
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