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The Snowfield Project (100%) in northern British Columbia hosts a substantial gold resource and is part of an expansive gold camp with excellent exploration potential. The Snowfield Deposit is a near-surface, low-grade, bulk tonnage, porphyry-style, gold-copper deposit with molybdenum and rhenium mineralization.

Estimated resources at December 1, 2009 consist of measured and indicated gold resources totaling 19.8 million ounces and silver resources totalling 50.9million ounces, and inferred gold resources totaling 10.1 ounces and silver resources totalling 43.7million ounces (see news release dated December 1, 2009.)

The Snowfield Project is located immediately east of Seabridge Gold's KSM property, along the eastern margin of the Coast Mountain Range, 65 km north of the town of Stewart. Access is by helicopter. Eskay Creek Mine access road lies approximately 20 kilometers to the northwest.

This district has been the subject of numerous exploration programs since the mid-1980's when it was being actively explored for porphyry copper-molybdenum and copper-gold, exhalative volcanogenic and lode gold-silver vein deposits. Drilling in 2006 resulted in the definition of the Snowfield Zone which then measured 350 meters by 450 meters on surface. In 2007, we expanded the zone and in a single hole located one kilometer to the north intersected a significant interval of gold-copper mineralization. In 2008, we followed up with a 16,945-meter drill program which outlined a significant gold-copper inferred resource that was part of the same system. Drilling in 2009 doubled the total resource and was successful in upgrading a substantial portion of the inferred gold resource to measured and indicated.

Metallurgical testwork for Snowfield is ongoing, and an aggressive drill program is planned for 2010.