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North of 60 Mining News – January 1, 2019
Drilling carried out at Iskut in 2017 targeted a gold-bearing epithermal system beneath the Quartz Rise lithocap, an alteration zone that is often found above porphyry-type gold-copper deposits.
Seabridge Gold Inc. Dec. 18 said it has encountered the hallmarks of a large copper-gold porphyry system at its Iskut project in northwestern British Columbia.
"We acquired Iskut in 2016 because it showed clear evidence of a large porphyry system similar in age and geology to our KSM project 30 kilometers (19 miles) to the east," said Seabridge Gold Chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk.
Quartz Rise was the...
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