VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 19, 2025/ CNW/ – BQE Water Inc. (TSXV: BQE), a leader in the treatment and management of mine affected waters is pleased to supply an upgrade on the Eagle Cash cow job.
Following the load leach failure at the mine in 2024, BQE Water created, executed, and ran an emergency situation water treatment plant, and has actually released over 1 million cubic meters of tidy water securely into the environment, under agreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. in its capability as court designated Receiver of Victoria Gold Corp. (the “Receiver”). With the staying stock of polluted water on website considerably lowered by BQE Water this year, and with appropriate storage now offered, active operations and release into the environment are anticipated to stop in November 2025 and a winterization strategy established by BQE Water is anticipated to be total previous to demobilization from website by December 15, 2025
In additional advancement, BQE Water sent a proposition in reaction to the tender for the style and application of a long-lasting water treatment option at Eagle Mine and was later on chosen by the Receiver to perform the very first stage of engineering with an agreement entered upon November 4, 2025 It is expected that the very first stage will finish by the middle of Q1 2026. Due to the intricacy of water structure and to support all possible job circumstances, the long-lasting treatment plant will integrate several brand-new procedures. Among these is a procedure for the elimination of cobalt-cyanide complexes to trace levels utilizing ion exchange. The procedure was established and pilot evaluated by BQE Water at Eagle Mine throughout the 2025 operation season. The long-lasting treatment style likewise consists of making use of BQE Water’s direct electro-reduction of selenium to be released if/when needed.
A crucial element of the brand-new style is a smooth, practical, and economical shift from BQE Water’s first aid procedure to the brand-new long-term system beginning with the expected re-start of water treatment prior to 2026 spring freshet, and a progressive growth of treatment including brand-new treatment phases for cobalt-cyanide, nitrogen types, and selenium if needed.
David Kratochvil, the President and CEO of BQE Water, specified, “Profitable application of first aid and safe discharge of over 1 million cubic meters of tidy water from Eagle into the environment is among the success stories of the job. We are likewise extremely happy that our proposition for long-lasting treatment was chosen to supply conclusive expenses for application of the irreversible long-lasting treatment at Eagle, supporting both additional stabilization and removal work at website. BQE Water’s experienced operations group which incorporates operators from a Na-Cho Nyäk Dun owned service will be all set to re-start tidy water production in the spring of 2026.”
About BQE Water’s Work at Eagle Cash Cow Considering That September 2024
BQE Water was contracted by the Receiver, as water treatment specialists and operations experts to help with the emergency situation reaction at the Eagle Cash cow located on the Standard Area of the First Country Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (FNNND) in main Yukon, which experienced a failure in its cyanide load leach center. As an outcome of the failure and the pre-existing water treatment plant being not able to deal with cyanide leach option to produce non-toxic effluent, an emergency situation option needed to be established and executed rapidly. Working collaboratively with the technical consultants to the Yukon Federal Government, the FNNND, the Receiver, and past Victoria Gold workers, the BQE Water group established and executed a treatment procedure integrating existing plant devices with off-the-shelf rental devices and freshly built ponds. Engineering style, laboratory screening, procurement, operations, and toxicological information analysis needed to be performed all at once to guarantee safe and prompt discharge of cured water into the environment.
About BQE Water
BQE Water is a company focusing on water treatment and management for metals mining, smelting and refining. We are assisting to change the method the market thinks of water in the context of natural deposit jobs by using services and know-how which makes it possible for more sustainable water management practices and enhanced total job efficiency at lowered threats. BQE Water buys development and has actually established distinct copyright through the commercialization of a number of brand-new innovations at mine websites all over the world for companies consisting of Glencore, Jiangxi Copper, Freeport-McMoRan and the United States EPA. BQE Water is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada and trades on the TSX Endeavor Exchange under the sign BQE. See www.bqewater.com for additional information.
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