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Culpeo Minerals (ASX:CPO, OTCQB:CPORF), OTCQB:CPORF) is an Australian exploration and development company with a portfolio of copper assets on Chile’s Coastal Cordillera Belt. Culpeo’s flagship asset, the Lana Corina, presents significant opportunities for further exploration with high-grade copper and molybdenum mineralization. The company also has two additional projects, Quelon and Las Petacas where early-stage exploration has defined several exciting targets.
Lana Corina contains higher-than-average molybdenum grades, as is typically seen when co-occurring with copper, further enhancing the asset's potential. The company has already completed 7,000 meters of drilling on the project, with additional opportunities to increase the footprint of known mineralization. Exploration work at Lana Corina returned high-grade assay results for both copper and molybdenum. Assays have indicated a grade of over 1 percent copper equivalent, and up to 15,000 parts per million (ppm) molybdenum. The presence of molybdenum creates an additional future revenue source and increases the value of the project.
Much of the company’s portfolio is within the Coastal Cordillera Belt, which hosts medium-sized, high-grade copper deposits estimated at 50 to 100 million tonnes at 1 percent copper equivalent. The copper within this belt is typically higher-grade than the prolific copper porphyry deposits in the Andes.
Company Highlights
- Culpeo Minerals is an Australian exploration and development company focusing on its copper assets in underexplored copper districts in Chile.
- Chile contributes 28 percent of the world’s copper production and has mining-friendly regulations.
- The company’s flagship Lana Corina asset contains high-grade copper and molybdenum deposits. The presence of molybdenum further enhances the asset’s value and potential.
- Assays from Lana Corina’s completed drill campaigns indicate grades up to 1 percent copper equivalent. More than 7,000 meters have already been drilled.
- Molybdenum is a strategic mineral necessary for manufacturing high-strength steel and is generally 10 times the price of copper.
- Culpeo’s additional assets are highly prospective for copper-gold and iron oxide.
- Much of the company’s portfolio is within the Coastal Cordillera Belt, which hosts medium-sized, high-grade copper deposits.
- A management team with decades of experience throughout the natural resources industry leads the company towards fully capitalizing on its prospective assets.
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