“Although it is not a material part of our total resources holdings and is not our primary objective, the Bronson Slope resource could play a valuable role in finding and developing the source porphyry copper-gold system which we are targeting,” Seabridge CEO Rudi Fronk said in a news release.
“Our team is back on the ground pursuing the understanding provided from building this mineral resource,” he added.
The Iskut property covers 294 km2 and is located about 110 km northwest of Stewart, BC. It includes the former Johnny Mountain gold mine as well as the Bronson Slope deposit.
An older 43-101 estimate put the measured and indicated resource for Bronson Slope at 186.9 tonnes grading 0.360 g/t gold, 0.112% copper and 2.192 g/t silver. There was also an inferred resource of 4.9 million tonnes at 0.321 g/t gold, 0.074% copper and 2.187 g/t silver. An updated resource estimate for Bronson Slope is expected in the second…
