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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 24, 2008) - BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc.

Pure Nickel Inc. (TSX: NIC)(OTCBB: PNCKF) ("Pure Nickel") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exploration and option agreement (the "Agreement") with Minergy Limited a private company, ("Minergy").

Mr. Harvey Keats, Chief Executive Officer of Knight Resources Ltd.

CCM Research analyst, Michael R. Anderegg, CFA, has written an initiating report on Goldbrook Ventures, Inc.