BQE Water Inc. has been awarded a contract for the design, construction and operation of a SART plant to improve gold leaching efficiency and overall cyanide management at a gold metallurgical facility in Shandong Province, China owned by Shandong Gold Mining, a state-owned corporation that is the gold producer in China. With a contract structure similar to two previous SART plants in the province signed in 2019 and that are now in operation with support services from BQE Water, this contract has two project phases. The first involves engineering design, procurement, construction, plant commissioning and start-up.

The second is for onsite operations support services for an initial period of five years in exchange for a quarterly service fee based on plant performance.