ena-STUDY-UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN-16-04-2017-22:14:11:039-754
Microbial communities in uranium mine tailings: high-throughput sequencing data
In this study we characterized microbial communities in tailings from a uranium mine waste facility, the Rabbit Lake In-Pit Tailings Management Facility (RLITMF), in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada.  We sampled two RLITMF boreholes in summer 2014, taking samples from a number of depths in both boreholes.   We used high-throughput amplicon sequencing (Illumina MiSeq platform) of the 16S rRNA gene (V4 region) to look at bacterial and archaeal diversity in the samples.
In this study we characterized microbial communities in tailings from a uranium mine waste facility, the Rabbit Lake In-Pit Tailings Management Facility (RLITMF), in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada.  We sampled two RLITMF boreholes in summer 2014, taking samples from a number of depths in both boreholes.   We used high-throughput amplicon sequencing (Illumina MiSeq platform) of the 16S rRNA gene (V4 region) to look at bacterial and archaeal diversity in the samples.