Canada-based BioteQ Environmental Technologies, has entered into a definitive pact to design and build a water treatment plant at the Minto copper mine owned by Minto Explorations Limited.

Under the arrangement, BioteQ will provide process design, engineering and project management services on a fee basis.

On the other hand, Minto Explorations is providing the capital and operating cost of the plant, which is expected to be installed at the mine site before spring runoff in 2010.

BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc., together with its subsidiaries, builds, owns, and operates water treatment plants that remove metals and sulphate from contaminated water in the United States, Canada, and internationally.