The claims cover 3,331 hectares adjacent to the north and east boundaries of Imperial’s Mount Polley Mine in central British Columbia, currently on care and maintenance.

This year’s winner of The Northern Miner’s $5,000 scholarship is Tyler Sieben, a student in his final year of mining engineering at the University of Alberta.

The Douay project has both open pit and underground resources.

Treaty Creek is 70 km north of Stewart and only 10 km from the former Eskay Creek mine.

BC business leader Bryan Slusarchuk worked his way up from a golf caddy to a financier of major mining deals.

Results from the summer drill program not previously reported include 6.23 g/t gold over 1.7 metre.