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Overview

Copper Fox is a copper development company with advanced stage assets in British Columbia and Arizona, two of the world’s top copper mining jurisdictions.  The Company’s flagship asset is the fully carried to production 25% interest in the Schaft Creek Project, a major porphyry copper system in northwestern British Columbia, operated by Teck Resources Limited (75%).  In Arizona, Copper Fox owns the Van Dyke Project, a low-impact in-situ copper recovery (ISCR) development project with strong economics and favorable permitting dynamics.  The Company also holds the Eaglehead Project in British Columbia, along with two early stage exploration projects in Arizona, the Sombrero Butte and Mineral Mountain Projects, which together provide scalable long term upside.

Copper Fox’s two advanced stage projects anchor a total copper eqivalent inventory exceeding 7.3 billion pounds, providing long life exposure to copper, gold, molybdenum and silver.  Copper Fox’s wholly owned exploration assets offer additional upside through resource growth, a new exploration discovery and strategic optionality.  Copper Fox is establishing itself as a sustainable supplier of critical metals projects to meet future critical metal demand.

Advanced Stage Projects

Schaft Creek - British Columbia, Canada - Cu/Au/Mo/Ag

  • The Schaft Creek project is managed through the Schaft Creek Joint Venture (SCJV), Copper Fox holds 25% interest while Teck Resources Limited is the Operator and holds 75% interest.
  • Schaft Creek comprises 60,268 hectares and is one of the largest undeveloped porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum-silver deposits in North America, located in an area of northwestern B.C. referred to as the “Golden Triangle”.
  • The mineralization contains significant quantities of copper, gold, molybdenum and silver.  The tonnes and average metal grades are included in the 2021 Mineral Resource Estimate update. Click here for MRE
  • The 2021 Preliminary Economic Assessment significantly increased the valuation over the 2013 Feasibility Study, reporting an after-tax NPV 8% of US$842M, an IRR of 12.9%, producing 5.0Blb of copper, 3.7Moz of gold, 226.0Mlb of molybdenum and 16.4Moz of silver over a 21 year mine life.  Click here for PEA
  • The 2025 program, budgeted at C$15.8M, is focussed on transitioning the project to the prefeasibility study (PFS) stage.  The 2025 program includes geotechnical drilling, environmental baseline data, wildlife, aquatic, hydrogeology and archeological studies, geotechnical investigation of two critical areas of the project infrastructure and upgrading the metallurgical, pit slope stability and geological and mineral resource models as required.

Van Dyke - Arizona, USA - Cu

  • Copper Fox owns a 100% working interest in the Van Dyke copper project, consisting of 531.5 hectares of mineral rights located in the Globe-Miami Mining District, approximately 145 kilometers (km) east of Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Van Dyke is an ISCR project that utilizes an in-situ leaching method to recover soluble copper.  Florence Copper’s ISCR project located approximately 100km west of the Van Dyke Project is currently in the construction phase with first production scheduled by the end of 2025.
  • The 2020 MRE substantially increased the mineral resource and established for the first time an Indicated mineral resource. Click here for MRE
  • The 2020 PEA reported an after-tax NPV 7.5% of US$645M, an IRR of 43.4%, producing 1.1Blbs of copper over a 17 year mine life using a copper price of US$3.15/lb. Click here for PEA
  • In 2024 geotechnical and mineral solubility studies yielded favourable results that could have a positive impact on project design and predicted copper production. 
  • Hydrogeological and ground water sampling programs commenced in 2024 to support the development of a Conceptual Hydrogeological Site Model.
  • In 2025 Copper Fox plans on inititiating planning activities required to advance the project to the PFS stage.

Exploration Stage Projects

Copper Fox owns a 100% interest in three prospective exploration stage porphyry copper projects. Eaglehead is an advanced stage exploration project and reached a milestone in 2023 with completion of a MRE. The Sombrero Butte and Mineral Mountain projects are high quality exploration stage projects situated in the highly prospective Laramide age copper belt of Arizona.  

Eaglehead - British Columbia, Canada - Cu/Au/Mo/Ag 

  • Eaglehead is a porphyry copper project covering 15,713 hectares (158.3km2) of the Lower Jurassic age Eaglehead Pluton located in the Liard Mining District, 50km east of Dease Lake, B.C.
  • The porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum-silver mineralization is located within an 8km long by 3km wide mineralized trend along the southern margin of the Eaglehead Pluton. 
  • The mineralized trend hosts four open-ended porphyry copper deposits and two areas of porphyry style mineralization that occur within a 6km long positive chargeability anomaly.  Approximately 20% of the chargeability anomaly has been tested by drilling.
  • The 2023 MRE significantly increased the mineral resource and established for the first time an Indicated resource category. Click here for MRE
  • 36,605m of diamond drilling - 120 mineralized drillholes out of 126 drillholes.
  • Preliminary metallurgical testwork indicated the mineralization responds well to standard flotation recovery methods yielding excellent metal recoveries to the third cleaner concentrate stage.
  • In 2025, Copper Fox plans to complete the geophysical coverage of the ‘mineralized corridor’ to delineate the dimensions of the chargeability anomaly to provide a better understanding of the potential size of the porphyry target and optimize future drillhole locations.

Sombrero Butte - Arizona, USA - Cu/Mo

  • Sombrero Butte is a porphyry copper project covering 1,179 hectares located in the Bunker Hill Mining District east of Mammoth, Arizona and approximately 3km south of Faraday’s Copper Creek porphyry copper deposit.
  • The property contains multiple clusters of mineralized breccia pipes which are interpreted to be associated with one or more porphyry systems at depth.
  • The 2024 geophysical and mapping program identified a large, porphyry copper target that could potentially extend to greater than 1,200m below surface.
  • Historical copper production occurred from 1903-1920 at the Magma Chief Mine with ‘low-grade’ ore assaying 3-5% and ‘higher-grade’ ore along open cuts and tunnels assaying 20-33%.
  • Historical drilling of the mineralized breccia pipes returned various core intervals of high copper mineralization to a depth of 500m below surface.
  • The 2025 program includes completing an updated exploration model, drillhole selection and filing a Plan of Operations to conduct a drill program to test the porphyry target at depth.

Mineral Mountain - Arizona, USA - Cu/Mo/Au

  • Mineral Mountain is a ‘drill ready’ porphyry copper project covering 1,751 hectares located in the Mineral Mountain Mining District east of Florence, Arizona.
  • The project is located on a 100km long, prolific ENE structural trend that hosts the Casa Grande, Florence, Resolution and Globe-Miami porphyry copper deposits.
  • The porphyry target measures approximately 3,500m long by 1,000m wide characterized by widespread Cu-Mo mineralization with over 800 copper showings and the alteration and geophysical signatures suggesting a buried porphyry copper system.
  • Permitting of the project to conduct a ‘maiden’ four-hole drilling program has been approved by the BLM and is subject to bonding requirements which are in progress.