Company Profile
BQE Water Inc., a water treatment company provides wastewater management services and treatment solutions to the mining and metallurgical industry globally. It offers water treatment solutions for mine drainage, waste rock piles, tailings water, groundwater, and lime plant influent and/or effluent streams for treating metals, sulphate, selenium, nitrate, and cyanide in the mining sector.
Its portfolio also includes smelting and refining services for treating metals and sulphate, and hydrometallurgy services for the treatment of metals, cyanide, and acids. The company's metal recovery and removal technologies include BioSulphide and ChemSulphide technologies, which use biological or chemical sources of sulphide to remove dissolved metals from mining wastewater Met-IX technology that treats wastewater, as well as sulphate technologies, such as Sulf-IX and Sulf-IXC, which removes sulphate and hardness from process water
Onsite field testing to remove sulphate from wastewater. Its portfolio also includes selenium removal technology, including Selen-IX that removes selenium from mining wastewater
On-site field testing to demonstrate selenium removal from mine impacted waters, and cyanide treatment technologies, such as SART to remove the metallurgical interference of cyanide-soluble metals and to recover and recycle cyanide in the gold processing. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, BQE Water was formerly known as BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. before rebranding in March 2017.