VMS bedrock
Volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralization in the Sicker Group volcanics, the source of the historic Cu-Au-Ag-Zn ore.
Sasquatch Resources is advancing a portfolio of copper and gold projects across Vancouver Island and southern British Columbia, led by the Mount Sicker waste-rock and VMS opportunity.
A historic VMS camp near Duncan, where modern ore-sorting can recover metal from 300,000+ tonnes of waste rock while remediating the site.
Mount Sicker is a historic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) camp near Duncan, British Columbia. Between 1895 and 1915 (with later work to 1945), the Lenora, Tyee, Richard III, Victoria and Twin J mines shipped high-grade copper-gold-silver ore at a historic cut-off grade of roughly 8% copper.
The early operations left behind over 300,000 tonnes of acid-generating waste rock that still carries economic grades. Sasquatch is applying a no-chemical, closed-loop ore-sorting process that removes over 95% of the sulphides, recovering gold, copper, silver and zinc while remediating the environmental and physical hazards of the abandoned site.
A 528 kg ore-sorting test returned 6.43 g/t gold, 180 g/t silver, 4.92% copper and 8.7% zinc, projecting roughly 100,000 tonnes of high-grade material at a 30–40% mass pull. Once permitted, operations could be completed within one to two years.
Volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralization in the Sicker Group volcanics, the source of the historic Cu-Au-Ag-Zn ore.
300,000+ t of historic mine waste with residual grade, amenable to sensor-based sorting as a low-cost, near-surface opportunity.
A no-chemical, closed-loop process removes >95% of sulphides, producing a high-grade concentrate for off-site processing.