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The project involves remediation of the Gunnar The project consisted of road repair work to access
Mine site to reduce the overall risk to the immediate site, clearing and grubbing of vegetation, placement
environment and to transform the Site to its natural of rip rap over historical Arsenic contamination on
use to allow for re-establishment of vegetation and the shoreline and within the water of Douglas Lake,
traditional use of the land. consolidation of approximately 3,400m3 of former
tailings and contaminated soil into 3 landforms,
In 2021, QM Points was contracted to perform the construction of an engineered cover system for
reclamation and remediation of the former Newcor the landforms, construction of an engineered
Mine site in Northern Saskatchewan. Newcor mine concrete and steel cover for the former mineshaft
was a former underground gold mine located on the entrance, topsoil placement and re-seeding of the
shore of Douglas Lake, SK with historical Arsenic worksite. The work was completed on schedule and
contamination. on-budget, leading to the successful reclamation
and remediation of 11,000m2 of land.
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