Sasquatch Resources eyes Mount Sicker waste rock to unlock gold and clean up legacy pollution

A junior mining company is betting that the future of resource extraction in British Columbia may lie not in digging new mines, but in cleaning up the past.

Thousands of legacy mine sites across Canada and the US pre-date modern environmental regulation, and many contain sulphide-bearing waste rock left exposed at surface — material that now represents both an environmental liability and a potential source of critical minerals.

Sasquatch Resources (CSE: SASQ) is advancing a...