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Plumb, J.J., Hawkes, R.B., Franzmann, P.D. (2007). The Microbiology of Moderately Thermophilic and Transiently Thermophilic Ore Heaps. In: Rawlings, D.E., Johnson, D.B. (eds) Biomining. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34911-2_11
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