A Vancouver gold exploration company has filed a lawsuit against the province, alleging it’s allowing another gold company to tunnel through its stake in B.C.’s golden triangle.

But the company it is suing says it is operating within the law.

Tudor Gold Corp. says the province’s gold commissioner did an about-face on a promise to protect its mineral rights near a proposed massive gold mine called the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project owned by Toronto-headquartered Seabridge Gold Inc.

Both companies are developing claims in the province’s golden triangle, a mineral-rich area in the northwest corner of the province that stretches 500 km north of Stewart almost to Yukon and Alaska.

At more than 90,000 square kilometres, the area is about the size of Portugal and makes up almost 10 per cent

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