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Indiana University

Lupin Mine

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IU Bloomington Geological Sciences Professor Lisa Pratt (left) and Princeton University Geosciences Professor Tullis Onstott (right) collect samples of microbes from groundwater in fractured rock 1.1 km below the Earth's surface in the Lupin gold mine, Nunavut Territory, Canada.

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Lisa Pratt

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