Investor Insight

World Copper’s most promising Zonia project in Arizona has the potential to become a significant copper producer serving the North American supply chain. The project’s positive economics presents a compelling investor value proposition.

Overview

Solar and wind energy are expected to power 90 percent of the world’s electricity by 2050, accelerating the demand for copper materials needed to supply this transition. While the copper boom is already in motion, driven by demand shortages, explosive copper price growth is expected to come in the near future and a high copper price environment might last for decades.

Copper producers will need to double the amount of global production just to keep up with a 30 percent penetration rate of electric vehicles (EVs) alone, and in the next two decades, the world must now produce more copper than has ever been produced previously in human history.

World Copper (TSXV:WCU,OTCQX:WCUFF,FRA:7LY0) has two outstanding pillars of growth, both located in safe and stable mining jurisdictions across the Americas and comprising over 4 billion pounds of copper:

• The Zonia copper-oxide porphyry project in Arizona has an estimated copper cathode production of 49 million pounds (22 kt) per year.
• The Escalones porphyry-skarn project is located in Chile, 30 kilometers East of El Teniente with an estimated copper cathode production of 115 million pounds (52 kt) per year and with upside exploration potential in supergene and skarn extension targets.