Quebec gives money for mine rehab project

Pierre Corbeil, Quebec’s minister responsible for northern Quebec, is giving the Kativik Regional Government $150,000 over three years to learn more about the condition of abandoned mineral exploration sites in Nunavik and how these can be put back into their natural state.

The money will allow the KRG to carry out a pilot rehabilitation project on an abandoned mineral exploration site in Nunavik.

“The rehabilitation of isolated sites in northern climates requires simple, effective and original methods. The results obtained by this project will provide vital information on methods to be used for optimal rehabilitation of abandoned mineral exploration sites in northern areas,” Corbeil said.

The KRG will also be able to continue its program to identify abandoned mineral exploration sites in Nunavik. Corbeil said “the efforts the KRG is putting into the difficult task of locating abandoned mineral exploration sites in Quebec’s Far North must be supported.”