The Gitxsan Huwilp Government (GHG) has withdrawn its September 4, 2013 letter of support for Seabridge’s KSM Project issued during the Project’s environmental assessment process. In a very significant decision that has potential to adversely impact further development of Seabridge Gold's Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) mine, the Gitxsan Huwilp Government has formally withdrawn its longstanding support for this mine. The unanimous decision by Gitxsan Huwilp Hereditary Chiefs of the Gitxsan...

The Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) project, owned by Seabridge Gold Inc., is a large-scale gold-copper-silver mine proposed for northwest British Columbia. Targeting a massive low-grade sulfide ore deposit, the mine is situated within the headwaters of the Bell-Irving tributary of the Nass River and the Unuk River, which ultimately flows into the Misty Fjords National Monument in Southeast Alaska. Seabridge Gold has described KSM as one of the world’s largest undeveloped gold-copper projects...

British Columbia recently awarded the KSM mine project with a “substantially started” determination, essentially making its Environmental Certificate good indefinitely. As RWB’s new briefer on this subject [linked here] explains, there is irony in this determination because it essentially makes moot one particularly commendable aspect of BC’s mining oversight; that being that when a development project does go forward, its Certificate should be relatively recently issued and based on...