World Copper’s (TSXV:WCU) newly appointed CEO Gordon Neal wants to focus on advancing the Zonia copper oxide project in Arizona, US, to the development stage and transforming World Copper into a US-centric copper company.
“The US government, the Department of Energy, has determined that copper is a critical metal. And so there’s lots of attention and funds available for companies that have a US-domiciled project,” he said.
World Copper’s Zonia project has undergone extensive historical exploration and mine development planning, with a historical 2018 preliminary economic assessment and 2017 mineral resource estimate that show excellent economics, a mine life of 8.6 years and an average annual production rate of 49.1 million pounds.
“Zonia is interesting because it ticks all the boxes for a copper project that could go into production fairly quickly, fairly cheaply and economically,” Neal explained. “It’s on private land, which I can get permitted easily. It has power on site. It has water on site. It is an oxide that’s at surface. The strip ratio is one-to-one. And there’s a billion pounds of copper in this deposit so far, and that’s just on the private land portion — we have three times the amount of land around (that).”
Neal added that he also plans to bring more US copper assets into the company’s portfolio.
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