Alexco Resources Receives Contract for Sludge Management.

International Resource News-29 June 2009-Alexco Resources Receives Contract for Sludge Management(C)2009 ENPublishing - http://www.enpublishing.co.uk

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Alexco Resource Corporation (TSX: AXR) (AMEX:AXU), a Canada-based company that explores for mineral resources, has announced that a company subsidiary, Alexco Resource US Corp, has been awarded a mine-water solids transfer and treatment contract at the Platoro underground gold mine located in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado, US.

The company has valued the contract at CAD1.1m. The company has been using its technology to pre-treat water within the underground mine pool at the Platoro Mine since September 2000, and the treatment results have been successful, resulting in overall reduction of dissolved concentrations of arsenic and zinc.

Based on the success of this technology in the underground mine pool, the present contract has been awarded to treat and transfer the mine-water treatment residues that have been generated from the water treatment plant since 1985, and to place these solids back into the underground mine workings.

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