About Falcon Copper

An American company
built for a structural
moment.

Falcon Copper Corp. is dedicated to expanding and strengthening the domestic copper supply chain from end to end, advancing exploration, primary smelting, and allied critical-minerals supply under one integrated platform.

We are a private American company. Our operators have built and run world-class copper mines. Our structure spans the full supply chain. Our timing is deliberate.

Company Overview
Falcon Copper Corp.
Type
Private American Corporation
Headquartered in the United States
Platforms
Three Integrated
Mining · Smelting · Allied Supply
Upstream Projects
8 projects · 9 properties
Montana · Alaska · Nevada · Arizona
Partnerships
Rio Tinto Kennecott · Freeport-McMoRan
Exploration partnerships in Nevada
FAST-41 Listing
2 Projects
Blue Copper (MT) and Schell Creek (NV)
Smelting & Refining
Four processing pathways
Restart · anode · secondary · new-build flash smelter
Mission

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

The United States has world-class copper geology. It has the policy framework. It has the demand. What it has lacked is a private company with the operational depth, the integrated structure, and the timing to act across the full supply chain simultaneously.

Falcon Copper was founded to be that company: a fully integrated operator spanning exploration through cathode, not a royalty vehicle or single-asset junior, and not a downstream processor disconnected from the resource.

01
Build the upstream portfolio
Eight copper-dominant U.S. exploration projects, including partnerships with Rio Tinto Kennecott and Freeport-McMoRan. Together they create the future mine supply that underwrites the full platform.
02
Close the smelting gap
Develop the first new-build primary copper smelter in the United States in four decades, turning domestic mine concentrate into refined cathode on U.S. soil.
03
Secure allied supply
Advance tier-one copper projects in Zambia under the Pax Silica framework and the developing U.S.–Zambia critical-minerals compact, building the allied supply chain the energy transition and defense industrial base require.
Why Now

The window is open.
It will not stay open.

Four structural forces have converged to create a discrete, time-bounded opportunity for a company with Falcon's architecture. First-mover positioning in domestic smelting is not repeatable.

>50%
China's share of global smelting & refining capacity (ICSG, 2025)
The Processing Chokepoint
Spot tolling at $0/t, or negative, in 2026; long-term tolling at ~$25/t. A deliberate strategic consolidation. The U.S. cannot afford to depend on adversarial processing capacity for a material this critical.
42Mt
Global copper demand by 2040 (S&P Global, 2026)
The Demand Surge
AI data centers, grid electrification, EVs, and defense systems are converging. A ~50% increase from today, with a projected 10Mt supply gap by 2040. The demand is structural, not cyclical.
17.9yr
Average discovery-to-production timeline
The Supply Cliff
No new investment today produces copper before the mid-2030s. The exploration work Falcon is doing now is the supply of the next decade.
§232
Section 232 tariff action on copper, 2025
The Policy Reset
DOE/USGS critical-mineral designation, Section 232 national security tariffs, Defense Production Act investments, and the State Department's Pax Silica framework (Dec. 2025): a coordinated structural policy commitment to domestic copper processing and allied critical-supply-chain security.
The gap, quantified
57%
U.S. reliance on imported refined copper (USGS MCS 2026)
Bought back on their terms
China processes 57–60% of the world’s refined copper and sets the price. America buys back more than half of what it uses on those terms. (USGS MCS 2026 · ICSG 2025)
~⅓
of U.S. mine output ships abroad as raw concentrate
Mined here, processed there
About 340,000 t of U.S. mine output leaves the country each year as concentrate; most likely reaches China for smelting. (USGS MCS 2026 · Rio Tinto, BIS-2025-0010)
~910 kt
U.S. refining capacity not yet built
The capacity gap
The U.S. consumes about 1.7 Mt of refined copper a year but refines only ~790 kt at home. Closing the gap means building that capacity here. (USGS MCS 2026 · ACI Jun 2026)
The Falcon Platform

Three platforms. One supply chain.

Falcon's three-platform structure is not a holding company. It is a single integrated operation where each platform reinforces the others.

01 · Upstream
01
Falcon Copper Mining
Exploration & Extraction

Eight U.S. copper-dominant exploration projects, with partnerships alongside Rio Tinto Kennecott and Freeport-McMoRan. The upstream supply that underwrites the full platform.

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02 · Midstream
02
Falcon Domestic Smelting and Refining
Domestic Copper Processing

Multiple pathways to rebuild U.S. copper processing capacity: restarting idled smelters and refineries, anode refining and secondary (scrap) smelting, and a new-build primary flash smelter in Arizona, the first in four decades.

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03 · Global
03
Falcon Allied Supply Chains
African Copperbelt · Zambia

Tier-one copper project identification and advancement in Zambia, operating under the Pax Silica framework and the developing U.S.–Zambia critical-minerals compact to build the allied supply chain.

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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, with direct credits on Freeport's Tenke Fungurume and Miami Smelter, Glencore's Mutanda and KCC, Mopani, Nevada Copper, Mineral Park, and the Cortez District.

Team pedigree
Freeport-McMoRan
Glencore
Rio Tinto
Barrick Gold
Phelps Dodge
Morgan Stanley
Perella Weinberg
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