Seabridge Gold Inc.'s (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) completed 2022 drill program at its Iskut project "supports resource expansion," reported Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Mike Kozak in a Jan. 9 research note. Iskut is about 30 kilometers from the company's KSM project in northwestern British Columbia.
"We ascribe zero value to the Iskut project and instead continue to view this exploration property as a highly prospective 'free option,'" Kozak wrote.
As is, Cantor's 12-month price target on Seabridge of CA$43.50 implies investors will at least double their money, given the stock's current share price is about CA$18.34. Cantor has a Buy recommendation on the Canadian mining firm.
Findings Upon Drilling
Seabridge's recent Iskut drill campaign encompassed ten drill holes covering 10,162 meters (10,162m), Kozak relayed. Through this exploration, the Toronto, Ontario-based company identified a large, mineralized quartz-magnetite breccia pipe, potentially the source of the Bronson Slope skarn deposit.
This breccia pipe "will help Seabridge target the source of mineralization at the Iskut project in its entirety, thought to be a large gold-copper porphyry system at depth," Kozak wrote.
The analyst presented some of the noteworthy drill results from Iskut:
- SBS-22-05: 289m of 0.7 grams per ton (0.7 g/t) gold and 0.28% copper
- SBS-22-01: 446m of 0.28 g/t gold and 0.14% copper
- SBS-22-10: 42m of 0.43 g/t gold and 0.21% copper
More Exploration This Year
Seabridge plans to follow up these findings with more drilling at Iskut this year, at the Bronson Slope, Quartz Rise, and North Snip targets, noted Kozak. At Bronson Slope, the objectives are to expand the current Measured & Indicated resource and to pin down the source of the newly discovered breccia pipe.
The source is "currently hypothesized to be a gold-copper porphyry intrusive, similar in age to the company's flagship KSM project," Kozak wrote.
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