Seabridge. Gold reported that this year's drill program at 100%-owned Iskut Project will concentrate on testing for the source copper-gold porphyry that has driven the intermediate sulfidation epithermal mineral systems recognized in 2023 program. The Iskut Project is located in the Golden Triangle of northwest B.C. about 30 km.

by air from KSM gold-copper district. growing gold-dominated Bronson Slope Mineral Resource and 2023 discovery of similar mineralization at Snip North are interpreted to be high-level expressions of intrusive related porphyry mineralization. The search for these source intrusions will employ three helicopter-portable drill rigs to complete approximately 15,000 meters of core drilling this year at a budgeted cost of $12 million.

Regional geophysical surveys and surface geology have confirmed the district scale structural corridor that connects the Quartz Rise, Bronson Slope and Snip North targets. Substantial high-level expressions of a Cu-Au porphyry system fall along this regional trend. These multiple targets have only recently seen deep drilling and 2024 is planned to better evaluate their deeper porphyry potential.

Results from drilling in 2023 at Bronson Slope have expanded, along strike and down plunge, an intermediate sulfidation epithermal system open in multiple directions. This mineral zone is adjacent to the quartz-magnetite breccia pipe previously discovered, all of which are indications of an intensive and extensive intrusion related fluid system at Bronson Slope. These intersections in sedimentary rocks contain the characteristic alteration and mineralization of an intermediate sulfidation Epithermal system associated with an intrusion related porphyry source.

The proximity of these holes adjacent to a magnetic high and within a resistivity low has provided a discrete vector to evaluate in this year's program. The regional structural corridor extends south to Quartz Rise. A reinterpretation of drilling and geophysical data from Seabridge's 2019 and 2020 programs at Quartz Rise has refined a target with a deep resistivity anomaly indicative of another copper-gold porphyry system below a partly eroded lithocap featuring intense lithocap featuring intense intrusion.