Copper Mining News

Prospect Ridge Resources Corp.
Prospect Ridge Resources Corp.
PRR
British Columbia

Prospect Ridge Stakes Additional Targets at Excalibur Following Successful Initial Drill Program

Prospect Ridge Resources Corp. has applied to stake an additional 385.6 hectares adjoining its Excalibur copper-gold porphyry project in British Columbia. The move follows highly encouraging visual observations from the company's first drill program, which intersected significant hydrothermal alteration, though formal assay results are currently delayed by laboratory backlogs.

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Prospect Ridge Resources Corp.
Prospect Ridge Resources Corp.
PRR.CN
British Columbia

Prospect Ridge Stakes Additional Targets at Excalibur Following Successful Initial Drill Program

Prospect Ridge Resources Corp. has applied to stake an additional 385.6 hectares adjoining its 100%-owned Excalibur copper-gold porphyry project in British Columbia. The move follows an initial drill program that showed encouraging visual indicators of porphyry-style alteration and mineralization, though formal assay results are currently pending due to laboratory backlogs.

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Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd.
Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd.
PEX
British Columbia

Pacific Ridge Completes Drilling at the Kliyul and RDP Copper-Gold Projects; Drilling at RDP Intersects 300 Metres of Continuous Copper-Sulphide Mineralization

Pacific Ridge completed 2026 drilling at the Kliyul and RDP projects, intersecting continuous copper-sulphide mineralization at RDP over 300m. The company also reported a large Inferred Mineral Resource for the Kliyul KMZ zone, totaling up to 389.9 Mt at 0.456 g/t AuEq.

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Sierra Nevada Gold
Sierra Nevada Gold
SNX
Saudi Arabia

Sierra Nevada Gold sizes up As Safra copper-gold system with major drilling push

Sierra Nevada Gold is launching a 25,000m Phase 2 drilling program at the As Safra project in Saudi Arabia. The campaign targets copper continuity at the Central Zone, extensions of known mineralisation, and new discoveries across a 12km prospective corridor.

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White Cliff Minerals
White Cliff Minerals
WCN
Copper
Unknown

White Cliff brings Danvers’ copper closer to surface

White Cliff Minerals has reported new shallow copper sulphide observations at Danvers 3, approximately 19m below surface. Additionally, fresh assays from the Danvers 1 northeastern extension returned a 16.1m intercept at 1.2% copper, supporting the company's resource definition program.

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Kaoko Metals
Kaoko Metals
KAO
Namibia

Kaoko expands Chalkos drilling to 15,000m as Donkey Hill grows

Kaoko Metals is expanding its Chalkos copper-silver drilling campaign in Namibia to at least 15,000 metres following encouraging visual mineralisation at the Otniel prospect. The company is also seeing growth in the mapped surface expression of its Donkey Hill copper target and has recently completed a $20m capital raise to fund these activities.

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Ivanhoe Electric
Ivanhoe Electric
IE
Copper
Arizona

Higher Santa Cruz capital costs weigh on Ivanhoe Electric

Ivanhoe Electric's Santa Cruz copper project PFS shows pre-production capital rising 15% to $1.43 billion, though NPV increased to $1.5 billion. The study includes a redesigned access tunnel and a copper price assumption of $4.75/lb, resulting in a 19% IRR and a 4.8-year payback.

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Ivanhoe Electric
Ivanhoe Electric
IE
Copper
Arizona

Higher Santa Cruz costs weigh on Ivanhoe Electric

Ivanhoe Electric released a new Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) for the Santa Cruz copper project in Arizona. While the project's NPV increased to $1.5 billion, capital costs rose by 15% to $1.43 billion and the IRR slipped to 19%, causing the stock to fall.

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