Vancouver Island · British Columbia
A century ago, miners took only the richest ore. We recover the copper, gold, silver and zinc still sitting in their waste rock — and leave the land cleaner than we found it.
Why we exist
Between 1895 and 1946, the mines of Mount Sicker shipped only ore grading up to 8% copper. Everything below that cut-off was left on the mountain.
That “waste” — more than 300,000 tonnes of it — still carries copper, gold, silver and zinc at grades most modern mines would envy. It is also acid-generating, and for over a century it has kept vegetation from returning to these sites.
Modern ore-sorting technology changes the equation. Sasquatch Resources evaluates, sorts and recovers metal from historic waste rock across British Columbia — turning a century-old liability into value, and remediation into the business model rather than the afterthought.
What the rock is telling us
Averages from the 97-sample grid program across waste rock areas at Mount Sicker (March 2024) and the 528 kg ore-sorting test (October 2024), as reported in company news releases. Historic sampling results — not NI 43-101 mineral resource estimates.
Projects
Historic mining districts across coastal British Columbia, each with metal left at surface and ground that deserves a cleanup.
Four former producing mines, 1,800+ hectares, and more than 300,000 tonnes of mineralized waste rock — the property where our recover-and-remediate model was born.
View the project
Mount Sicker area
A VMS system exposed by fresh logging cuts, sitting on the mountain’s largest geophysical anomaly.
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Lake Cowichan
High-copper waste beside a recreation area — where recovery doubles as a public-land cleanup.
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Quadra Island
High-sulphide waste piles and visible copper in large surface outcrops, from mining circa 1915.
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Near Sardis, BC
1,567 hectares of gold claims beside the historic Red Mountain Gold Mine, with samples up to 700 g/t gold.
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No mill, no tailings pond, no decade-long permitting path. Each site follows the same three moves.
Grid sampling, channel sampling and backpack drilling establish what the waste piles and near-surface mineralization actually hold — published openly as we go.
Mobile crushing and ore-sorting units work on site. Only high-grade concentrate leaves the property — our 528 kg test projected a 30–40% mass pull from sorted waste.
Acid-generating rock is removed, open shafts and adits are made safe, and ground that has been bare for a century gets a chance to grow back.
Stewardship
“Every tonne we remove is a tonne of acid-generating rock that stops leaching into the watershed.”
These sites pre-date environmental regulation by decades. Open shafts drop 200 feet from forest floor; waste piles have kept hillsides bare since 1905. We work with environmental consultants Synergy Enterprises and board advisor Jill Doucette to make sure every recovery program leaves a measurably safer, cleaner site behind.
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Contact
Whether you’re a community member near one of our sites, a potential partner, or simply curious about the model — we’d like to hear from you.
Get in touch#600 – 1090 West Georgia St.
Vancouver, BC V6E 3V7