Mount Sicker
Near Duncan on Vancouver Island, Mount Sicker hosted four producing mines — Lenora, Tyee, Richard III and Twin J — between 1895 and 1946. Operating with cut-off grades as high as 8% copper, they left more than 300,000 tonnes of mineralized, acid-generating waste rock on the mountain.
Our grid sampling, hand-auger work and a 528 kg ore-sorting test confirm that this waste sorts into a high-grade concentrate. The plan: mobile crushing and sorting on site, high-grade material shipped off-site, and an estimated one-to-two-year recovery program per area once permitted — closing open shafts and adits as we go.