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Courageous Lake Project

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Overview

Mine TypeOpen Pit
StagePre-Feasibility
Commodities
  • Gold
Mining Method
  • Truck & Shovel / Loader
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SnapshotThe Courageous Lake is one of Canada largest undeveloped projects by gold resources.

The Courageous Lake Project includes two deposits: the Courageous Lake deposit, and the Walsh Lake deposit. Only the Courageous Lake deposit is used in the 2024 PFS.

2024 PEA demonstrating the potential to extend 2024 PFS mine life by an additional 15.9 years averaging over 200k ounces of gold production per year.
Related AssetCourageous Lake Expansion Project

Owners

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CompanyInterestOwnership
Seabridge Gold Inc. 100 % Indirect
Courageous Lake project is 100%-owned by Seabridge Gold Inc.

Seabridge assigned its right to its wholly owned subsidiary, Seabridge Gold (NWT) Inc.

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Deposit type

  • Epithermal
  • Vein / narrow vein

Summary:

The Courageous Lake Project includes two deposits: the Courageous Lake deposit, and the Walsh Lake deposit. Only the Courageous Lake deposit is used in the 2024 PFS.

Deposit Types
The Courageous Lake deposit is a stratiform series of near-vertical, elongate lenticular mineralized domains hosted in Archean tuffaceous clastic rocks and ash-flow tuff. Gold mineralization is interpreted to be a product of an episodic, epithermal-like, submarine and subaerial, hydrothermal system.

Mineralization
Since its discovery, several common points have been used to describe the felsic ash tuff (FAT) deposit, including:
• A series of gold zones concentrated in long and narrow bands.
• The deposit is hosted by metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks.
• Gold concentrations are associated with the introduction of silica, muscovite, and sulphide minerals.

The FAT deposit is located between the north shore of Matthews Lake and the south shore of Courageous Lake. It is made up of at least 13 discrete, steep east-dipping, elongate lenticular zones that vary in thickness from 20 to 125-m-wide. The continuity of these 13 zones has been demonstrated to be at least 1,900 m long, 800 m-wide and, although open at depth, at least 1200 m deep.

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Production

CommodityProductUnitsAvg. AnnualLOM
Gold Payable metal koz 2012,536
Gold Metal in doré koz 2132,541

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* According to 2024 study.

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OP mining costs ($/t mined) USD 3.2 *  
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Processing OpEx $M USD 911
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