Miners at the bottom of the Homestake Mine in South Dakota (IMAGE)

Marine Biological Laboratory

Miners at the bottom of the Homestake Mine in South Dakota

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At the bottom of the Homestake Mine in South Dakota, ca. 2001. At the time, this gold mine was the deepest in the Western hemisphere and thus one of the deepest places to sample for underground microbes.

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Rick Colwell

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