Seabridge Gold to Initiate Environmental Program at Iskut Property, British Columbia
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Seabridge Gold has initiated a robust environmental program aiming to remediate areas of historical mining activity at its newly acquired Iskut property in northwestern British Columbia, including the Johnny Mountain Mine, a past gold producer.
Seabridge’s planned environmental and engineering work for this summer is designed to ensure compliance with existing authorizations and to begin the evaluation and development of remediation programs to mitigate the impacts of past mining activity at an estimated cost for this year of $750,000. This program will include a comprehensive evaluation of best practices for future remediation on the property, drawing from the Seabridge environmental team’s experiences at KSM and other North America sites and input from the Tahltan First Nation and BC regulatory officials. Work will begin with a general site cleanup in the vicinity of the Bronson Slope Airstrip. The environmental work will be completed in conjunction with Seabridge’s planned 2016 exploration program for the property.
“The Iskut property provides us with two opportunities. First, we believe this new project offers exceptional potential to discover new high grade gold deposits. At the same time, this project offers us the important challenge of addressing the environmental issues raised by historical mining activity,” said Seabridge Gold Chairman and CEO Rudi Fronk.
“We take pride in being a responsible mineral exploration and development company. Integrating a substantial environmental work plan into this year’s exploration program sets us on a path to improving site conditions. Going forward, exploration will go hand in hand with remediation,” added Fronk.
“We have a strong interest in the remediation of the Johnny Mountain mine site on our traditional territory. We expect to work closely with Seabridge to ensure that Tahltan citizens benefit from this work and that we are kept fully informed of the progress that is being made in the planned clean-up programs. During the eight year environmental assessment process for KSM, Seabridge demonstrated their willingness and openness in addressing environmental issues and we look forward to continuing our excellent working relationship with them,” said Chad Norman Day, president of the Tahltan Central Government (TCG).
About Seabridge Gold
Seabridge Gold holds a 100 percent interest in several North American gold resource projects. The company’s principal assets are the KSM and SnipGold properties located near Stewart, British Columbia, Canada and the Courageous Lake gold project located in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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