Seabridge Gold has officially begun their 2023 drilling program at their 100 percent owned Iskut project site, roughly 80 kilometres west of Bell II.
Over the course of the program, Seabridge plans to complete 12 to 15 drill holes, exceeding 12,000 metres of core in the area.
Initial work will see three to four holes drilled at their Snip North target, in an effort to discover the source of copper-gold anomolies at the site.
But the main part of the program will continue drilling under the Bronson Slope deposit which began last year.
That work uncovered a major quartz-magnetite breccia pipe, providing evidence of a large copper-gold deposit below the drilling.
Breccia pipes are vertical holes filled with broken rocks, which become mineralized over time through hydrothermal eruptions.
Regional surveys indicate that it may be part of a district-scale structural feature connecting the Snip, Bronson and Quartz Rise targets.
So far one of three helicopter-portable drill cores have been dispatched to the Iskut site, with two other drills on route.
