Domestic Metals(TSXV:DMCU)

Domestic Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large-scale, copper and gold deposits in exceptional, historical mining project areas, in the Americas.

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Domestic Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large-scale, copper and gold deposits in exceptional, historical mining project areas, in the Americas. The Company aims to discover new economic mineral deposits in historical mining districts that have seen exploration in geologically attractive mining jurisdictions, where economically favorable grades have been indicated by historic drilling and outcrop sampling. Domestic Metals is led by an experienced management team and an accomplished technical team, with successful track records in mineral discovery, mining development and financing.

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NA
Shares outstanding
60.8M
Fully diluted shares
95.5M
Mineral resource
The Smart Creek project hosts significant mineralization corresponding to at least 3 related styles of copper and gold mineralization, including porphyry copper-gold (Smart Creek, Sunrise and Radio Tower), carbonate replacement deposits (Sunrise Mine and Radio Tower), structurally controlled epithermal gold (Sunrise Mine), and exotic or remobilized copper deposits formed by supergene processes (Smart Creek Exotic Copper Target). Copper-gold mineralization at Smart Creek is the result of magmatic-hydrothermal fluid flow driven and focused by Cretaceous intrusions and trapped by reactive Helena Formation carbonate-rich metasedimentary rocks.
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["## Smart Creek Project\n\n**LOCATION**\n\nThe Smart Creek Project is located 100 km southeast of Missoula, Montana and 20 km north from Philipsburg Montana, USA and is accessible year-round via highway and gravel roads (Figure 1).\n\n**BACKGROUND**\n\nThe Smart Creek Copper Porphyry Project, acquired in August 2024, is a joint venture with Rio Tinto, where Rio will retain 40% of the asset. Smart Creek is considered prospective for porphyry copper as well as copper-gold-silver enriched carbonate replacement deposits (CRD). Rio Tinto drilled 26 of 40 permitted sites over a 2.5 year period vectoring toward a porphyry centre at the Smart Creek target where the best hole returned 109.73 meter @ 0.75% Cu, which included 89 metres of 0.97% Copper (SMCR0022; see [NR dated August 20, 2024](https://domesticmetals.com/norden-crown-announces-acquisition-of-option-over-the-smartcreek-copper-gold-porphyry-project/)).\n\n**SMART CREEK PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS**:\n\n- Extensive high-grade oxide and sulfide copper mineralization across the property. Historical rock samples with copper grades ranging from below detection limits up to 5.64% Cu with historical mining at Smart Creek, Sunrise and at the Henderson Gulch placer mining operations.\n- Historic mining of a gold-copper replacement-style mineralization at the past producing Sunrise Mine.\n- Preservation of the porphyry-skarn-CRD-epithermal geological environments on the property. Geological mapping demonstrates exotic copper mineralization, high-sulfidation style gold mineralization, skarn/CRD mineralisation exposed at surface, and widespread porphyry-style, mineralization and veins. The property features multiple targets with limited drilling, untested by modern methods.\n- A critical mass of exploration data including airborne magnetic/radiometric/Induced polarization geophysical data and historic soil and rock sampling, RC and diamond drilling with significant, untested geochemical anomalies coincident with alteration zones (2).\n- Highly reactive host rocks (Helena Formation calcareous metasedimentary rocks and diabase intrusions); porphyry intrusions associated with large alteration footprints at Smart Creek and Sunrise (figures 1-4).\n\n**RESULTS OF 2025 FIELD CAMPAIGN**\n\nDomestic Metals published the analytical results for 310 surface samples from the 2025 Summer/Fall field campaign. Results highlight several exploration opportunities consisting of porphyry, skarn, CRD and structurally-controlled gold targets.\n\nThe program was designed to characterize known mineralized zones, refine drill target locations and identify new areas for follow-up exploration.\n\n**Highlight High-Grade Assay Results**\n\n- 102 g/t Au (Sample G019007)\n- 74.7 g/t Au, 13.8% Cu, 3810 g/t Ag (Sample G019235)\n- 30.4 g/t Au (Sample G019001)\n- 26.6 g/t Au (Sample G019353)\n- 23.1% Cu, 424 g/t Ag (Sample G019225)\n- 19.65% Cu, 458 g/t Ag (Sample G019031)\n- 19.05% Cu, 582 g/t Ag (Sample G019038)\n\nDetailed results can be found in the news release [dated January 8, 2026](https://domesticmetals.com/surface-sampling-at-smart-creek-project-yields-high-grade-mineralization-with-up-to-102-g-t-au-up-to-23-cu-and-up-to-3810-g-t-ag/).\n\n**Summary of findings – 2025 Field Campaign**\n\n- Domestic completed successful mapping, sampling and prospecting at the Smart Creek Project. The new data will be coupled with a geophysical (MT/IP) program in advance of drilling scheduled for Q1/2026.\n- Rock sample assays from outcrops, historic trenching, mines and workings demonstrate high-grade gold, copper, silver and zinc and confirms the project is prospective for porphyry copper deposits, carbonate replacement deposits (“CRD”), skarn and exotic copper deposits.\n- 39 samples (out of 310) exceed 0.5 g/t Au, 43 samples (out of 310) exceed 1 % Cu, 35 samples (out of 310) exceed 30 g/t Ag, 31 samples (out of 310) exceed 0.1% Zn.\n- All targets (Sunrise Mine, Smart Creek, Radio Tower, Exotic Cu) are significantly expanded based on the results of the 2025 exploration program at the Project.\n\n**SMART CREEK PROJECT GEOLOGY**\n\nThe Smart Creek project area is underlain by geology that is highly prospective for CRD style deposits:\n\n1. The Helena Formation silty limestones are superb reactive trap rocks.\n2. Heat and fluid sources are documented and the property is located along the northwest margin of the copper-productive Boulder Batholith which underpins the western Montana porphyry belt.\n3. Smart Creek has the prerequisite geological architecture for CRD and porphyry discovery as well as wide spread alteration footprints including marble, calc silicate (skarn) and manganese oxides.\n4. Massive to semi-massive sulfides with excellent metal tenor have been sampled and mapped on the property.\n\nThe CRD prospective Helena Formation at Smart Creek has the potential to yield high unit-value deposits which have an excellent pedigree in the western United States. An excellent example of this style of copper-gold mineralization is the Bisbee Camp’s Copper Queen CRD deposit located in the Warren Mining District, southeast Arizona, which has a historic production of 53 Mt @ 6% Cu (1,2). The Domestic Metals technical team has extensive experience with this style of mineralization and will systematically explore for the CRD deposit style at the Project using modern toolkits.\n\n## Target Opportunities​\n\n## Smart Creek PCD Target:\n\nExploration drilling by the previous operators confirmed the presence of poprhry copper mineralization at Smart Creek and identified increasing alteration and mineralization toward the northwest margin of the Smart Creek target which is characterized by 1) significant copper (and molybdenum) soil anomalism, 2) a significant induced polarization chargeability feature where there is a lack of drill testing. Outboard of the chargeability target the host rocks contain strong manganese oxide fracture fill as well as gold arsenic “leakage” geochemistry signatures, consistent with the periphery of porphyry copper systems.\n\nSmart Creek has the potential for high-grade copper and gold due to\n\n1) the volume of reactive carbonate host rocks (Helena Formation)\n\n2) widespread skarn, marble, calc silcate and silica alteration footprints which are consistent with the distal expressions of CRD and porphyry deposits and\n\n3) presence of an unreactive cap rock aquitard unit (Missoula Group).\n\nCap rocks have the potential to generate high grades in porphyry copper deposits by forcing fluids into more reactive adjacent units. An analogous mineralized system is the Resolution copper deposit (Arizona) where high grade carbonate and diabase host rocks are “super-charged” due to fluid flow channelized by unreactive quartzite. Exploration targets identified by Domestic Copper at the Smart Creek project are untested by historical drilling.\n\n* * *\n\n## Exotic Copper Target:\n\nThe Smart Creek project is characterized by widespread copper, gold and silver in surface outcrops as well as core and RC drill holes (Figures 1 and 2). At the Exotic Copper target area in the east part of the land position, malachite and azurite mineralization is strongly developed in in tensely fractured rocks. The dimensions of the copper oxide body measure 900m by 400m (plan) and up to 75m depth, defined by historic drilling (Figures 1-3). The direct analogy for the copper footprint at Smart Creek is the recently active Carlota mine in eastern Arizona.\n\nThis area is also being evaluated as a sulfide (hypogene copper) target. Alteration of the Helena Formation host rocks includes bleaching, potassic and marble. Vectoring strategies for the porphyry target are currently being deployed by Domestic; these include detailed geological mapping, stable isotope work, as well as evaluation of the leakage geochemical characteristics in the fracture fill oxides.\n\n* * *\n\n## Sunrise Porphyry:\n\nThe historic Sunrise Mine area is underlain by a large magnetic high feature in addition to discrete chargeability anomalies. Domestic Metals geologists have recognized the shallow porphyry environment features at Sunrise which are characterized by 1) bleached and marbleized host rocks, 2) widespread porphyry “leakage” elements arsenic, gold and manganese, and 3) mineralized and altered porphyry dikes. The company is expanding the IP coverage to delineate the porphyry target at Sunrise, as well as interpreting the new geochemistry data in this context, to refine drill targets.\n\n* * *\n\n## Radio Tower Target:\n\nAn additional porphyry copper opportunity has been recognized in the south part of the Sunrise mine area. Domestic Metals’ geologists have recognized intense marble alteration outcropping in an area underlain by anomalous Cu-Mo-Mn in reconnaissance soil data, as well as a strong IP chargeability high in a historic single geophysical reconnaissance line The dimensions of the target are 1000m by 1300m defined by the alteration mapping, IP and limited soil data. The strong marble alteration zone is flanked by more distal dolomite alteration and the entire area is underlain by reactive Helena Formation banded carbonates. The Robinson Mine, in Eastern Nevada is an analogous magmatic-hydrothermal system and contains high-grade ore hosted by chemically reactive carbonate host rocks.\n\n* * *\n\n## Sunrise Structurally-Controlled/Epithermal Gold:\n\nDomestic Metals’ geologists have evaluated rocks and historic mine material in the Sunrise Mine area. Alteration is characterized by vuggy silica associated with silicified -clast breccia and strongly sulphidized host rocks. Intense clay, limonite are the products of weathering of the widespread sulfides. Sunrise Mine area is an opportunity to develop targets with gold potential in the shallow porphyry environment, distal to the porphyry centers identified at Smart Creek and Radio Tower. Gold deposits commonly occur in structures and stratigraphic traps within the distal and/or shallow extensions of the porphyry environment.\n\n* * *\n\n## Carbonate replacement Targets (2+ target areas):\n\nWidespread marble and skarn alteration is mapped at both Smart Creek and Sunrise. Leakage characteristics in these rocks includes manganese oxides and copper oxides in fracture surfaces cutting the dominant Helena Formation host rocks. This is the distal signature of the CRD clan of deposits which commonly occur in porphyry environments inside the 5km region surrounding the heat and fluid source.\n\n* * *\n\n## Notes:\n\n1 Briggs, D.F., 2015, History of the Warren (Bisbee) Mining District. Arizona Geological Survey Contributed Report CR-15-b, 8 p.\n\n2 Past producing deposits and development projects shown outside of the Smart Creek land position provide geologic context for the Property, but this is not necessarily indicative that the Property hosts similar grades or tonnages of mineralization."]
Leadership
Gordon Neal (Director, President and CEO, Gordon Neal started as one of the founding members of MAG Silver Corp. before moving on to serve as the VP Corporate Development for Silvercorp Metals and later, the President of New Pacific Metals. Mr. Neal has raised more than $750M in the resource sector and serves on multiple metals and mining company boards. He served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada and is a past member of the Board of Directors and the Senate of Dalhousie University.), Stuart Ross (CFO, Mr. Ross has had a distinguished career as a senior officer and director of several public companies, including companies listed on the NASDAQ and TSXV. His sector experience includes mining, beverage production and distribution, medical services, gaming and merchant banking, including 17 years as a senior officer and director of Clearly Canadian Beverage Corp. (1986 to 2003). Most recently, Stuart was President and CEO of El Tigre Silver Corporation and Cardero Resource Corp. through 2022.), Marla Ritchie (Corporate Secretary, Ms. Ritchie brings over 25 years experience in public markets working as an Administrator and Corporate Secretary specializing in resource based exploration companies. Currently, she is the Corporate Secretary for Wealth Minerals Ltd., Gelum Resources Ltd. and Domestic Metals Corp. She is the former corporate secretary for multiple companies including International Tower Hill Mines Ltd., Corvus Gold Inc. and Cardero Resource Corp.), Dan MacNeil (Advisory Board, Mr. MacNeil is a precious and base metal specialist with more than 20 years of experience from continental-scale project generation to in-mine resource expansion in a wide variety of geological settings throughout the Americas and Europe. Daniel currently consults with mid-tier, private and junior mining/exploration companies on mine resource expansion and early through advanced exploration target delineation, drill testing and exploration property evaluations globally.), Alan Wainwright (Advisory Board, Dr. Alan Wainwright is an economic geologist focused on precious and base metals with 20+ years of mineral exploration and research experience in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Alan completed his PhD with Ivanhoe Mines at Oyu Tolgoi (Mongolia) and was a co-recipient of the H.H. Spud Huestis award for his role in the Coffee Gold discovery (5 Moz Au; Yukon). Alan was the program leader for the industry sponsored Western Tethyan Metallogeny Project at The University of British Columbia’s Mineral Deposit Resource Unit, where the research team built new geologic and mineral exploration frameworks for the Balkans, Turkey and Caucasus. Alan is a Professional Geoscientist (PGeo; EGBC) and a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists.), Peter Megaw (Technical Advisor, Dr. Megaw has a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Arizona and more than 30 years of relevant experience focused on silver and gold exploration in Mexico. He is a certified Professional Geologist by the American Institute of Professional Geologists and an Arizona Registered Geologist Dr. Megaw has been instrumental in a number of mineral discoveries in Mexico including new ore bodies at existing mines, Excellon Resources’ Platosa Mine, and MAG Silver’s Juanicipio and Cinco de Mayo properties; discoveries for which he was given PDAC’s 2016 Thayer Lindsley Award. Peter is also a Director of Relevant Gold Corp. since 2021.), J. Patricio Varas (P.Geo. – Chairman, Mr. Varas is a Professional Geoscientist and Mining Executive with over 38 years’ experience in mineral exploration, mine development and corporate management. He has extensive experience in developing precious and base metal exploration and mining projects around the world. He has played integral roles in the discovery of world class mineral deposits and mines (Santo Domingo Sur Cu-Fe – Chile, Diavik Diamonds – NWT, Milestone Potash – Sask), delivery of major feasibility studies and has overseen significant mineral asset sales and corporate transactions.), Hendrik van Alphen (Director, Early in his career, Mr. van Alphen started and operated a number of service-related companies, beginning with a line cutting operation in northern BC, and in 1985, launching Hy-Tech Drilling, which is still in operation today. In 1991, he founded Pacific Rim Mining Corp., which acquired the Taca Taca, Diablillos, and Aqua Rica projects, that developed into significant deposits and/or high value M&A transactions. From 1994 to 1999, he served as Vice-President of Corriente Resources Inc., after which he launched the very successful Cardero Resource Corp. He then co-founded International Tower Hill (ITH) Mines in 2006, where he served as Chairman for 5 years. In 2021 he founded World Copper Ltd. which now owns the Zonia Copper Project in Arizona and Escalones project in Chile. Mr. van Alphen is a director and Chairman of World Copper Ltd. In 2005, Mr. van Alphen founded Wealth Minerals, where he continues to serve as CEO and director. Wealth Minerals is a major exploration and development company in the Atacama Salar in Chile.), David Reid (Director, David Reid, LL.B., is a senior partner and Global Co-Chair of Mining with DLA Piper (Canada) LLP with over 30 years of experience in mining and securities law, including over $2 billion in corporate finance and M&A transactions since 2011. Mr. Reid is recognized by Lexpert as a Leading Canadian Lawyer in Global Mining, The Legal 500 Canada (Energy-Mining-Corporate-M&A), and Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of mining, natural resources law and securities law. David led a team in connection with a transaction awarded Mining Deal of the Year by Canadian Dealmakers in 2012 and has served on the board of several TSX, NYSE and TSXV resource companies, including Far West Mining Ltd. (acquired in 2011 by Capstone Mining Corp. in a $1.1 billion M&A transaction).), Jon Sherron (Director, Jon Sherron brings over 20 years of senior management experience, with a strong focus on corporate governance, business strategy, and operational excellence. Based in Vancouver, BC, he currently serves on the boards of several public and private companies, offering valuable insights into governance, risk management, and strategic growth. Since 2009, Jon has been Vice President of EDI Inc., an investment company with a diversified portfolio of funds. He has worked with internationally recognized brands including SABMiller, MolsonCoors, Constellation, Gallo Winery, and Diageo, and has held senior leadership roles in the beverage distribution industry. Jon also served as a director of the Montana Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association. Jon has been a Director of Norden Crown since 2016, where he plays a key role in providing strategic guidance and governance oversight. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Montana State University.)

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