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. We span the full supply chain. Our timing is deliberate.

Company Overview
Falcon Copper Corp.
Type
Private American Company
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 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.

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 the rest of the platform is built on.
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 forces have converged on the same missing capacity: the Processing Chokepoint, the Demand Surge, the Supply Cliff, and the Policy Reset. The argument is made in full on the home page; the analysis carries the sources.

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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.

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; tariff cover on refined copper phases up to 30% by January 2028.
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
U.S.–DRC Strategic Partnership
Allied critical-minerals cooperation anchored on the Lobito Corridor.
The Falcon Platform

Three platforms. One supply chain.

Falcon's three platforms run as a single integrated operation, each reinforcing 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 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 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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This website contains forward-looking statements. Mineral resource and reserve estimates, exploration results, and project economics are subject to the risks and uncertainties described in Falcon Copper's regulatory disclosures. Past performance of partner companies does not guarantee future results. See full disclosures.