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Here, we report high-precision quadruple sulfur isotope analyses (32S/33S/34S/36S) of barite, pyrite in barite, and sulfides in related hydrothermal and igneous rocks occurring in the ca. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, Western Australia. Our results indicate that observed isotopic variations are mainly controlled by mixing of mass-dependently (MD) and non-mass-dependently fractionated (non-MD) sulfur reservoirs. Based on the quadruple sulfur isotope systematics (δ34S–Δ33S–Δ36S) for these minerals, four end-member sulfur reservoirs have been recognized: (1) non-MD sulfate (δ34S = −5 ± 2‰; Δ33S = −3 ± 1‰); (2) MD sulfate (δ34S = +10 ± 3‰); (3) non-MD sulfur (δ34S > +6‰; Δ33S > +4‰); and (4) igneous MD sulfur (δ34S = Δ33S = 0‰). The first and third components show a clear non-MD signatures, thus probably represent sulfate and sulfur aerosol inputs. The MD sulfate component (2) is enriched in 34S (+10 ± 3‰) and may have originated from microbial and/or abiotic disproportionation of volcanic S or SO2. Our results reconfirm that the Dresser barites contain small amounts of pyrite depleted in 34S by 15–22‰ relative to the host barite. These barite–pyrite pairs exhibit a mass-dependent relationship of δ33S/δ34S with slope less than 0.512, which is consistent with that expected for microbial sulfate reduction and is significantly different from that of equilibrium fractionation (0.515). The barite–pyrite pairs also show up to 1‰ difference in Δ36S values and steep Δ36S/Δ33S slopes, which deviate from the main Archean array (Δ36S/Δ33S = −0.9) and are comparable to isotope effects exhibited by sulfate reducing microbes (Δ36S/Δ33S = −5 to −11). These new lines of evidence support the existence of sulfate reducers at ca. 3.5 Ga, whereas microbial sulfur disproportionation may have been more limited than recently suggested."}]}],"creator":[{"@id":"https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1381137044914971011","@type":"Researcher","foaf:name":[{"@value":"Yuichiro Ueno"}]},{"@id":"https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1381137044914971010","@type":"Researcher","foaf:name":[{"@value":"Shuhei Ono"}]},{"@id":"https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1381137044914971009","@type":"Researcher","foaf:name":[{"@value":"Douglas Rumble"}]},{"@id":"https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1381137044914971008","@type":"Researcher","foaf:name":[{"@value":"Shigenori Maruyama"}]}],"publication":{"publicationIdentifier":[{"@type":"PISSN","@value":"00167037"}],"prism:publicationName":[{"@value":"Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta"}],"dc:publisher":[{"@value":"Elsevier 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