ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2014
Río tinto: a geochemical and mineralogical terrestrial analogue of Mars.
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38 citing papers in PubMed.
- Antioxidant Compounds in Microalgae and Cyanobacteria: A Sustainable Source of Bioactive Molecules.Marine drugs · 2026Review
- Fungal-Mineral Interaction: Astrobiology Insights from Iron-Rich Mineral Alteration by an Extremophile Black Fungus.JACS Au · 2026Article
- Metabolic potential of newly isolated bacterial species from the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Searching for extraterrestrial life advances terrestrial sustainability.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Survival of Filamentous Cyanobacteria Through Martian ISRU: Combined Effects of Desiccation and UV-B Radiation.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Association of Acidotolerant Cyanobacteria to Microbial Mats below pH 1 in Acidic Mineral Precipitates in Río Tinto River in Spain.Microorganisms · 2024Article
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- Vitamin BGenes · 2023Article
- An Overview of Lipid Biomarkers in Terrestrial Extreme Environments with Relevance for Mars Exploration.Astrobiology · 2023Review
- Production and Characterisation of an Exopolysaccharide byPolymers · 2023Article
- Fe (III)-Mediated Antioxidant Response of the Acidotolerant MicroalgaAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Yeast Diversity in the Qaidam Basin Desert in China with the Description of Five New Yeast Species.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Biogeochemical Niches of Fe-Cycling Communities Influencing Heavy Metal Transport along the Rio Tinto, Spain.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Oligotrophic Growth of Nitrate-Dependent FeFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Acetate Degradation at Low pH by the Moderately Acidophilic Sulfate ReducerFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Unveiling microbial preservation under hyperacidic and oxidizing conditions in the Oligocene Rio Tinto deposit.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Preservation of Underground Microbial Diversity in Ancient Subsurface Deposits (>6 Ma) of the Rio Tinto Basement.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Forced Biomineralization: A Review.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Seeding Biochemistry on Other Worlds: Enceladus as a Case Study.Astrobiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The geomicrobiological characterization of the water column and sediments of Río Tinto (Huelva, Southwestern Spain) have proven the importance of the iron and the sulfur cycles, not only in generating the extreme conditions of the habitat (low pH, high concentration of toxic heavy metals), but also in maintaining the high level of microbial diversity detected in the basin. It has been proven that the extreme acidic conditions of Río Tinto basin are not the product of 5000 years of mining activity in the area, but the consequence of an active underground bioreactor that obtains its energy from the massive sulfidic minerals existing in the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Two drilling projects, MARTE (Mars Astrobiology Research and Technology Experiment) (2003-2006) and IPBSL (Iberian Pyrite Belt Subsurface Life Detection) (2011-2015), were developed and carried out to provide evidence of subsurface microbial activity and the potential resources that support these activities. The reduced substrates and the oxidants that drive the system appear to come from the rock matrix. These resources need only groundwater to launch diverse microbial metabolisms. The similarities between the vast sulfate and iron oxide deposits on Mars and the main sulfide bioleaching products found in the Tinto basin have given Río Tinto the status of a geochemical and mineralogical Mars terrestrial analogue.
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