“Copper’s second secular bull market this century is being driven by booming decarbonization-related demand growth,” the Citi analysts said in a note. “Only higher prices will solve these deficits.”
As the sheer demand for copper increases rapidly as the world electrifies, prices have risen more than 10% this year amid major mine disruptions threatening production.
Taking this into account, the supply side of the equation is running at a deficit for copper which is expected to persist throughout the energy transition. This means the world has a lot of work to do on the supply side in order to keep up with demand, including finding new sources of copper.
Unearthing Precious and Base Metal Treasures in Mexico and Arizona
With two precious metals projects in Mexico, Palos Verdes and Los Pavitos, alongside a copper project in Arizona, Hot Breccia, Prismo Metals (PRIZ.c PMOMF) recently joined Gold Newsletter to discuss the company's 2024 plans for all three properties: https://youtu.be/WbXxz4vT8TA?si=zDtWTlwBluwwKhnm Boasting a tight share structure with significant ownership by management and strategic investors, including Vizsla Silver, Prismo is aiming to be active on all three of its properties this year, starting with geophysics at Los Pavitos in Mexico and a new drilling campaign at Palos Verde, with assay results and on-site campaigns expected in the coming months.
The fully permitted Palos Verde Project is located within the historic Panuco-Copala silver-gold district in Sinaloa Mexico, the same district as Vizsla's discoveries.
Encompassing 22.77 hectares with 6,000m drilled in 33 holes thus far, the project is known for numerous veins with rich historical production and has hit bonanza grade intercepts in the mineralized shoot.
Notably, PRIZ has partnered with Vizsla for Palos Verdes and, having collaborated on the exploration plans, PRIZ is aiming to drill into the system from the top of the hill where an anomaly at depth has been identified using detailed mapping, sampling, and geophysics.
With ongoing exploration including 2,370m already drilled, Los Pavitos is PRIZ's second fully permitted project targeting a multi-million ounce high grade orogenic gold deposit.
The largely unexplored project provides an opportunity to explore for a deposit similar to those discovered and put into production over the last two decades in the northwestern Caborca Gold Belt which has provided over 15-20M oz of Au resources and gold production totaling over 5M oz.
Located in the world famous Arizona copper belt near the historic Christmas Mine, PRIZ's Hot Breccia Project boasts positive historic drilling and exploration activity.
Surrounded by significant copper deposits in the region, including the Ray Mine and Hayden Smelter area, Hot Breccia encompasses 1,420 hectares with the same geology as the Christmas Mine which will be used as a model for mineralization.
Notably, the project is associated with intermediate intrusive rocks and favorable sedimentary rocks and past production saw ~25Mt of ore with 363Mlb Cu, 2.1Moz Ag and 55.o26oz Au.
Posted on Behalf of Prismo Metals Inc.