Canadian gold company buys SlaughterhouseProject claims containing copper, gold
SARATOGA (WNE) — Seabridge Gold, a Canadian-based gold company, will be exploring the Sierra Madre mountains outside Encampment for gold after purchasing 163 mining claims from Orogen Royalties, Inc., another Canadian-based company.
Last month, Seabridge Gold announced the purchase of properties and data of the Slaughterhouse Project from Orogen Royalties. According to a press release, Seabridge paid $300,000 for the project, which included the mining claims as well as geophysical survey results, geological mapping, sampling and prospect evaluation.
Orogen Royalties will also receive up to $2.55 million in milestone payments when specific goals are met.
The Slaughterhouse Project, according to a press release from Orogen Royalties, covers nearly seven-and-a-half miles of iron-oxide- copper-gold mineral targets.
Copper mining is nothing new for the Encampment area. For more than a decade—from 1897 to1908—the Ferris-Haggarty Mine, then called Rudefeha, produced 21 to 23 million pounds of copper ore. The Grand Encampment Mining District effectively came to an end in 1913.
Since then, however, there has been a continued effort by both private companies and public entities to map what remains of metals in the Sierra Madre mountains.
Other minerals in the Sierra Madre mountains, according to the Wyoming State Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey, include zinc, nickel, cobalt, platinum and palladium.
In the press release from Seabridge Gold, CEO Rudi Fronk said the company would “employ a novel concept" using modern exploration and tools which have never been tested in Wyoming.
“Although this is an early-state project, we believe we have the potential to make a discovery that opens new possibilities for gold and critical metals exploration,” said Fronk. “We also think that using new technologies and aggressive exploration could unlock mineral systems relatively quickly.”
This story was published on Nov. 13, 2026.
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