CA salient points part 129 Apr 2026 11:48
1] Finding new copper deposits that are economic, permitted and developable within a reasonable timeframe is genuinely hard. The world’s major copper miners are struggling to replace reserves. Junior explorers are therefore sitting on something valuable if they can prove up resources — even modest ones.
2] The project hosts at least four mineralised zones, with a confirmed outcropping strike length of more than 12 kilometres.
The style of mineralisation is what makes this geologically interesting. Sediment-hosted copper deposits (think the Zambian Copperbelt or the Zechstein Basin in Poland) tend to form as large, laterally extensive, tabular ore bodies. They’re not glamorous. They don’t have the bonanza-grade intercepts of a porphyry copper or a high-grade vein system. But what they lack in fireworks, they compensate for in scale, consistency and (critically) minability. - ££££.
3] The closest comparable is KGHM’s Lubin mine in Poland — part of the legendary Kupferschiefer copper system — which operates on an orebody averaging 2.8 metres thick at around 1.2% copper equivalent. (also GreenX’s Tannenberg in the same system)
Lubin is one of the world’s great copper mines. The difference is that Lubin operates at depths of 350 to 1,000 metres. Agadir Melloul’s equivalent mineralisation is essentially at the surface.
That changes the economics. Near-surface deposits are cheaper to develop, cheaper to mine and cheaper to sustain. They require less upfront capital, less complex engineering, and faster permitting pathways.
4] CMR’s initial exploration target at Agadir Melloul is 20 to 25 million tonnes at 1.2% copper equivalent. That’s the starting point — the number the company is comfortable putting its name to based on 1% of the project area drilled.
The company’s own sensitivity analysis, modelling different target areas and mineralisation percentages, suggests potential resources ranging from 25 million tonnes to 64 million tonnes at grades between 1-1.2% copper equivalent, implying contained copper of 300,000 to 638,000 tonnes.
At current copper prices, 300,000 tonnes of contained copper in the ground — in a shallow, developable deposit in a mining-friendly jurisdiction — represents substantial value.
Even using conservative assumptions, these numbers are striking relative to its current market capitalisation