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BQE Water and Hudbay to Implement the First SART Plant in Canada
BQE Water Inc. (TSXV: BQE), a leader in the treatment of mine waters and metallurgical bleed streams, is pleased to report that it has entered into a contract with Hudbay Minerals Inc. (Hudbay) to progress the engineering design of a SART plant which will be integrated into their mill in Snow Lake, Manitoba, to the Issued-for-Construction (IFC) phase of the project.
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