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About Falcon Copper

An American company built for a structural moment.

Falcon Copper Corp. operates across exploration, primary smelting, and allied critical-minerals supply as a single integrated platform.

Company Overview
Falcon Copper Corp.
Platforms
Mining · Smelting & Refining · Allied Supply Chains
Upstream Projects
8 projects · 9 properties
Montana · Alaska · Nevada · Arizona
Project Partners
Freeport-McMoRan · Rio Tinto Kennecott
Butte Valley joint venture · Schell Creek option to joint venture
FAST-41 Listing
Blue Copper · Schell Creek
Montana · Nevada
Facilities in Development
Arizona smelter · Gulf Coast refinery
Mission

Expand and strengthen America's copper supply chain from end to end.

The United States has world-class copper geology, a policy framework that now favors domestic processing, and demand rising faster than supply can meet it.

Falcon Copper was founded to work all three at once, as a private American operator spanning exploration to finished copper.

Build the upstream portfolio
Prove out U.S. copper resources large enough to feed domestic processing for decades.
Close the smelting gap
Return primary smelting and refining to the United States, so domestic concentrate is finished at home.
Secure allied supply
Add allied-nation copper to U.S. supply under the Pax Silica framework and the developing U.S.–Zambia critical-minerals compact.
The Policy Arc

Copper, reclassified: from commodity to strategic asset.

Over three years, U.S. policy has moved copper from an ordinary industrial commodity to a designated strategic asset, with tariff protection, federal investment authority, and allied-supply frameworks behind it. Since April 2026 it prices domestic smelting directly.

Aug 2023
DOE Critical Materials List
Copper added to the Department of Energy critical materials list.
Mar 2025
Executive Order 14241
Defense Production Act authorities invoked for domestic mineral production.
Aug 2025
Section 232 Tariffs
50% national security tariff on semi-finished copper, effective August 1. Ores, concentrates, anode, cathode and scrap are excluded.
Nov 2025
USGS Final 2025 List
Copper formally designated a critical mineral, unlocking federal permitting and investment programs.
Dec 2025
Pax Silica Framework
The State Department's framework coordinating allied critical-supply-chain policy with founding signatories including Japan and Korea.
Feb 2026
Project Vault and FORGE
A $12 billion facility, $10 billion of it through the Export-Import Bank, lets manufacturers pre-buy critical minerals at set prices. FORGE adds a U.S.-led trade framework with price floors.
Feb 2026
U.S.–DRC Strategic Partnership
Allied critical-minerals cooperation anchored on the Lobito Corridor.
Apr 2026
Section 232 Modified
A 10% rate for articles made from copper smelted and cast in the United States, the first federal measure that prices domestic smelting. The domestic-content threshold fell to 85% in June.
Authorized, not yet in force
Domestic Input Requirements
The July 2025 proclamation directs the Secretary of Commerce to implement domestic-sales requirements on U.S. copper input materials, starting at 25% in 2027 and rising to 30% in 2028 and 40% in 2029. Commerce has not issued an implementing rule.

Proclamations 10962 (Jul. 2025), 11021 (Apr. 2026) and 11032 (Jun. 2026), Federal Register · USGS, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 · U.S. Department of Energy · U.S. Department of State · Export-Import Bank of the United States

The Falcon Platform

Three platforms across the chain.

Falcon's three platforms run as a single integrated operation, each reinforcing the others.

Falcon Copper Mining
Exploration & Extraction

Eight U.S. copper-dominant exploration projects, including a joint venture with Freeport-McMoRan and an option to joint venture with Rio Tinto Kennecott.

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Falcon Domestic Smelting and Refining
Domestic Copper Processing

Falcon is developing two projects: a new-build primary smelter in Arizona, the first in four decades, and an electrolytic refinery on the Gulf Coast.

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Falcon Allied Supply Chains
Allied Critical-Minerals Supply

Tier-one copper project identification and advancement in Zambia, operating under the Pax Silica framework to build the allied supply chain.

Explore Platform
The Team

Operators from the world's largest copper mines.

Falcon Copper is run by people who have held senior operating roles at Freeport-McMoRan, Glencore, Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold, and Phelps Dodge.

Leadership & Board
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