Headline Partner

Veolia Water Technologies partners with exploration, engineering, and mining companies to solve even the most difficult mine water challenges. We provide a full range of mine water treatment services including preliminary and detailed engineering, standard and custom water treatment equipment, chemicals, maintenance support, and mobile water treatment options. We understand the unique requirements of mining operations and our worldwide expertise in mine water issues allows us to offer specialized water treatment solutions that treat water and efficiently remove a wide range of contaminants in order to help comply with discharge requirements and stringent regulations.

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Founded in 2016, Ecoreg is a group environmental consultants and scientists that provide technical excellence and regulatory expertise in water and aquati resources. Ecoreg has a proven track record of developing partnerships and using research and innovation to solve problems.

Excellent water stewardship guides their approach to every project, integrating greater client needs and water related challenges. Understanding project planning, operations, water resources, treatment and ultimately impacts to aquatic ecosystems; requires an integrated approach between site water users, engineers, and environmental scientists.

Their team has a unique ability to integrate on and off-site water resources to understand downstream and regional outcomes and provide strategic actionable insights. Whether working through mine closure or environmental assessments, routine monitoring or approvals, we work with clients to assure regulatory compliance and social responsibility objectives are achieved.

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Innovation is in our name, and it is what drives the organization. H2O Innovation is a water solutions company focused on providing best-in-class technologies and services to its customers. The Corporation’s activities rely on five pillars: (i) Water Technologies & Services (WTS) applies membrane technologies and engineering expertise to deliver equipment and services to municipal and industrial water, wastewater, and water reuse customers, (ii) Specialty Products (SP) is a set of businesses that manufacture and supply a complete line of specialty chemicals, consumables, and engineered products for the global water treatment industry, (iii) Operation & Maintenance (O&M) provides contract operations and associated services for water and wastewater treatment systems; (iv) Water Infrastructure Development (WID) is developing WaterHubs. Through performance financing, our turn-key projects can be designed, built and operated at no upfront capital expense to our clients, and (v) Maple and Agri-food, offering a complete line of equipment dedicated to maple syrup production and the agri-food industry.

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Whatever our clients envision, our teams can design and build. With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we know your business and understand that your challenges are changing rapidly. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient and innovative. We draw upon our 10,000 staff with experience in over 150 countries to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

Hatch takes an integrated approach to water management. We provide technical consulting, feasibility studies through detailed design, management of construction and commissioning and operational support. Our water capabilities span three main areas of expertise: water infrastructure, water treatment, and water resource management. On the industrial side, our main areas of focus are water treatment and water resource management.

Influencer

Geosyntec is a leading consulting and engineering firm that works with public and private sector clients in a diverse range of regulatory environments to address their needs. Established in 1983, Geosyntec has grown to a staff of over 2,600 engineers, geologists, scientists, and other technical professionals. We serve our clients from more than 130 offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Finland, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia. At Geosyntec, our vision of success builds on a long- held belief that exceptional client service coupled with exceptional project solutions will result in lasting business relationships with our clients and strategic partners. We support our client service and project solutions approach through an internal culture of technical excellence and collegial relationships that is shared throughout our global organization, common commitment to our core values, the innovation, and the practical thinking our staff bring to every assignment.

Geosyntec has a long history of providing technical services and practical solutions to the worldwide mining industry. Clients turn to us to solve complex environmental and engineering challenges that ultimately reduce life-cycle cost, improve environmental performance, reduce long-term environmental liability, simplify closure, and improve post-mine land use and conversion. In addition, we support mine development and project evaluation based on the complex market drivers associated with the mining industry, including market value, government regulations, the need for innovative technologies, and the importance of corporate social responsibility and social governance.

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GHD is an employee-owned, global professional services firm that leads through engineering, construction and architectural expertise, operating across America, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Together with our clients, we create lasting benefit, through forward-looking, innovative approaches that connect and sustain communities around the world. Our mining capacity is robust, and we can adapt to the challenges and uncertainties that arise within the industry.  Effective resource development, operations and mine/closure asset transition remain critical, and GHD offers full lifecycle Engineering Design, Environmental and Construction services, as well as sophisticated decarbonization and digital approached, solutions and technologies.

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Mackenzie Investments (“Mackenzie”) is a Canadian investment management firm with approximately $219 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2025. Mackenzie seeks to create a more invested world by delivering strong investment performance and offering innovative portfolio solutions and related services to more than one million retail and institutional clients through multiple distribution channels. Founded in 1967, it is a global asset manager with offices across Canada as well as in Beijing, Boston, Dublin, Hong Kong, and London. Mackenzie is a member of IGM Financial Inc. (TSX: IGM), part of the Power Corporation group of companies and one of Canada’s leading diversified wealth and asset management organizations with approximately $278 billion in total assets under management and advisement as of January 31, 2025.

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PMAP is a mining wastewater treatment service provider based on a novel technology with significant economic and ESG advantages. We utilize an innovative reagent based on MgO and supplied and supported by Baymag - Canada's sole provider of high-grade magnesium-based products. Equipped with this reagent and excellence in process design, accompanied with our unmanned smart dispensing vessel (USDV) PMAP treats mining wastewater treatment with %80 less CAPEX, %30 reduced OPEX and significant ESG upgrades in safety, GHG emissions, and environment-friendly processes in comparison to dominant processes in the industry.

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Piteau Associates was established in 1976 and is now a company of more than 175 personnel, with 12 offices in 8 countries globally.  Today, Piteau is a ‘niche’ global consulting group specializing mine hydrology, geochemistry, all aspects of mine water management and geotechnical engineering through all stages of the mine life cycle. As one of the largest consulting groups dedicated to practical mine water management, we service a client base spanning all continents, climatic settings and commodities. Piteau operates using a ‘global office’ concept, allowing the deployment of our best specialists to service projects irrespective of location.

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ESdat is produced by EarthScience Information Systems (EScIS), an Australian company founded in 2003. Our software is used globally by many of the world’s leading consulting, industrial, government and mining organizations.

Our vision is to always deliver the world’s best environmental and groundwater data management system, supporting our clients to work smarter and affect real change by understanding and providing solutions to their core data challenges.

Our team of scientists and software developers has experience working with environmental and geo-scientific data in contaminated sites, mining, groundwater resources, and compliance. This expertise provides the foundation on which we build our world-class environmental and hydrogeological data solutions.

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Equilibrium Mining is a highly skilled consulting team providing geotechnical and hydrogeological solutions to mining challenges. With specialized resources in Canada, the USA, and Australia, we deliver exceptional technical expertise to our global clients. Diversity is key to our innovative culture – 75% of our Board of Directors are women and a team of senior female engineer Managing Directors leads our teams globally. Equilibrium has been involved in some of the largest and most challenging global mining projects.

We combine expert technical knowledge and computational/modelling skills with practical operational experience to both open-pit and underground mining projects.

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As a global specialist in complex fluid handling, NETZSCH has been developing, producing and distributing positive displacement pumps worldwide for more than 70 years. We develop the right pump solution for you or your customers' specifications. Our products consist of; progressive cavity pumps, rotary lobe pumps, peristaltic pumps, multi screw pumps, macerators and grinders. Ask us about how we can help you pump wastewater, mineral slurries, thickened slurries, kaolin suspensions, filtrates, tailings or explosives safely and efficiently. Enjoy direct representation and local service and support via Canada’s 2 assembly facilities located in Ontario and Alberta.

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Toray has extensive experience treating multiple types of tailings ponds with our Toray UF and Toray RO membranes. Toray's product portfolio consists of state-of-the-art cross-linked polyamide spiral-wound reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membrane elements (Toray RO and CSM™), pressurized and submerged PVDF hollow-fiber ultrafiltration membrane modules (Toray UF), and flat-sheet membrane bioreactor modules (Toray MBR). Contact us for additional details.

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Water Services and Technologies’ multidisciplinary team delivers expert solutions for mining water management worldwide, combining hydrogeology, environmental science, data analysis, and software development. We assess, monitor, and model groundwater and surface water inflows, optimize water balance to improve efficiency and reduce risks, and support environmental compliance and reporting. Our hydrogeological risk assessments help mitigate challenges related to water availability, quality, and dewatering. By integrating cutting-edge technology and deep industry expertise, we empower mining operations to optimize water use, maintain regulatory compliance, and enhance long-term sustainability.