BQE Water and Nuvumiut Development to operate water treatment plants at Nunavik Nickel
BQE Water Inc, a leader in the treatment of mine waters and metallurgical bleed streams, reports that its joint venture with Nuvumiut Development entered into a three-year agreement with Canadian Royalties Inc. (CRI) to operate mine water treatment plants at CRI’s Nunavik Nickel Project operations. Mine water treatment at Nunavik Nickel involves seasonal operation of five treatment systems, typically running from May to October depending on the volume of water requiring treatment.
BQE Water Nuvumiut Development Inc is a joint venture between BQE Water and Nuvumiut Development which is a company fully owned in equal share by Qaqqalik Landholding Corporation of Salluit and Nunaturlik Landholding Corporation of Kangiqsujuaq. The joint venture between BQE Water and Nuvumiut Development is registered with Makivvik corporation, an Inuit land claims organisation that administers and invests the funds, promotes economic growth and the preservation of Inuit culture, language, health, welfare, relief of poverty and education of Inuit communities.
Canadian Royalties Inc is a private mining company based in Montreal that owns and operates the Nunavik Nickel Project which includes open pit and underground mines and a concentrator plant to produce copper and nickel sulphide concentrates. Adamie Alaku, President of Nuvumiut Developments Inc commented: “Clean water is essential to our communities, and we are very pleased that CRI selected BQE-Nuvumiut for the role that helps ensure the environment is protected.”
David Kratochvil, President & CEO of BQE Water, commented: “This new contract expands the scope of our existing partnership with Inuit communities centred around water stewardship in Nunavik and will support the growth and strengthening of BQE’s core expertise in mine water treatment operations in Eastern Canada in general and Quebec in particular.”
BQE Water invests in innovation and has developed unique intellectual property through the commercialisation of several new technologies at mine sites around the world for organizations including Glencore, Jiangxi Copper, Freeport-McMoRan and the US EPA.
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