intercept returned 14,394.5 grams per tonne over 0.75 metres.
Approximately 17,500 metres of drilling at Skeena
Resources Limited's Spectrum project was designed to define
a near-surface, high-grade gold resource. Skeena also acquired
the GJ copper-gold prospect from Teck Resources Limited and
NGEx Resources Inc.
PORPHYRY (COPPER-GOLD, COPPER-
MOLYBDENUM AND MOLYBDENUM) PROJECTS
The first copper-gold-bearing concentrate from
Imperial Metals Corporation's Red Chris mine
was shipped to Asia in April. Mining progressed
at the Main-zone and East-zone pits, and
included zones of higher copper and gold grades
than anticipated. Commercial production was
achieved on July 1, as mill throughput surpassed
30,000 tonnes per day. Optimization of milling
and processing procedures is ongoing.
Production continued at the Huckleberry
copper-gold-silver-molybdenum mine, co-
owned by Imperial Metals Corporation
and Japan Group (Mitsubishi Materials
Corporation; Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.; and
Furukawa Co., Ltd.), as the main-zone opti-
mization plan progressed through year four.
Exploration drilling at Whiting Creek tested
near-mine targets.
Seabridge Gold Inc. expanded the copper-gold Kerr-
Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) project, with deep drilling at the
Deep Kerr zone and the Mitchell zone. Results included 196.8
metres grading 0.69 grams per tonne gold and 0.72 per cent
copper from a 1,358.2-metre depth, indicating continuation of
Quartz-magnetite-bornite veins at
Imperial Metals Corporation's Red
Chris mine.
