Au
Gold
Before
1.86g/t
→
After sorting
6.43g/t
Our flagship near Duncan: a turn-of-the-century copper-gold camp that left more than 400,000 tonnes of mineralized waste rock at surface. This is where the model began.
Near Duncan on Vancouver Island, Mount Sicker hosted four producing mines, Lenora, Tyee, Richard III and Twin J, operating from 1895 to 1946, with peak production in the early years. Working to cut-off grades as high as 8% copper, they left more than 400,000 tonnes of mineralized, acid-generating waste rock on the mountain.
Our grid sampling, hand-auger work and a 528 kg ore-sorting test confirm that this waste contains high-grade materials. The plan: mobile crushing and sorting on site, high-grade material shipped off-site, and an estimated one-to-two-year recovery program per area once permitted, closing open shafts and adits as we go.
From the 97-sample surface grid program and the 528 kg ore-sorting test (TOMRA XRT).
Roughly 58% of the test mass reported to the high-grade product. Waste is crushed and sorted on-site using a mobile system; only high-grade material and fines leave the property.
300,000+ t of historic mine waste containing gold, silver, copper and zinc (but also sulphur, arsenic and lead) sits in massive piles at surface, leaching contaminants into the surrounding environment.
Utilizing well-established ore-sorting technology in a no-chemical, closed-loop process, >95%+ of sulphides can be removed from the waste to create a high-grade and valuable product.
High-grade material is removed and sold, the site is remediated, and a 100+ year "wasteland" returns to nature - critical minerals enter the supply chain with no new mining infrastructure or waste.
Two historic waste piles, Lenora and Tyee, with their portals and shafts mapped across the property.
Explore Mount Sicker's historic waste rock piles - Sasquatch's primary targets.
Selected results from sampling and drilling across the project's targets.
Surface, grid, channel and ore-sort samples are selective by nature and are not necessarily representative of the mineralization across the property. Historical production and results were obtained by prior operators and have not been independently verified by the Company; they are not current mineral resources. Technical disclosure reviewed and approved by a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. See SEDAR+ for details.