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Domestic Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large-scale, copper and gold deposits in exceptional, historical mining project areas, in the Americas.

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Domestic Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large-scale, copper and gold deposits in exceptional, historical mining project areas, in the Americas. The Company aims to discover new economic mineral deposits in historical mining districts that have seen exploration in geologically attractive mining jurisdictions, where economically favorable grades have been indicated by historic drilling and outcrop sampling. Domestic Metals is led by an experienced management team and an accomplished technical team, with successful track records in mineral discovery, mining development and financing.

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Cash position
NA
Shares outstanding
71.9M
Fully diluted shares
120.1M
Mineral resource
The Smart Creek project hosts significant mineralization corresponding to at least 3 related styles of copper and gold mineralization, including porphyry copper-gold (Smart Creek, Sunrise and Radio Tower), carbonate replacement deposits (Sunrise Mine and Radio Tower), structurally controlled epithermal gold (Sunrise Mine), and exotic or remobilized copper deposits formed by supergene processes (Smart Creek Exotic Copper Target). Copper-gold mineralization at Smart Creek is the result of magmatic-hydrothermal fluid flow driven and focused by Cretaceous intrusions and trapped by reactive Helena Formation carbonate-rich metasedimentary rocks.
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["## Smart Creek Project\n\n**LOCATION**\n\nThe Smart Creek Project is located 100 km southeast of Missoula, Montana and 20 km north from Philipsburg Montana, USA and is accessible year-round via highway and gravel roads (Figure 1).\n\n**BACKGROUND**\n\nThe Smart Creek Copper Porphyry Project, acquired in August 2024, is a joint venture with Rio Tinto, where Rio will retain 40% of the asset. Smart Creek is considered prospective for porphyry copper as well as copper-gold-silver enriched carbonate replacement deposits (CRD). Rio Tinto drilled 26 of 40 permitted sites over a 2.5 year period vectoring toward a porphyry centre at the Smart Creek target where the best hole returned 109.73 meter @ 0.75% Cu, which included 89 metres of 0.97% Copper (SMCR0022; see [NR dated August 20, 2024](https://domesticmetals.com/norden-crown-announces-acquisition-of-option-over-the-smartcreek-copper-gold-porphyry-project/)).\n\n**SMART CREEK PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS**:\n\n- Extensive high-grade oxide and sulfide copper mineralization across the property. Historical rock samples with copper grades ranging from below detection limits up to 5.64% Cu with historical mining at Smart Creek, Sunrise and at the Henderson Gulch placer mining operations.\n- Historic mining of a gold-copper replacement-style mineralization at the past producing Sunrise Mine.\n- Preservation of the porphyry-skarn-CRD-epithermal geological environments on the property. Geological mapping demonstrates exotic copper mineralization, high-sulfidation style gold mineralization, skarn/CRD mineralisation exposed at surface, and widespread porphyry-style, mineralization and veins. The property features multiple targets with limited drilling, untested by modern methods.\n- A critical mass of exploration data including airborne magnetic/radiometric/Induced polarization geophysical data and historic soil and rock sampling, RC and diamond drilling with significant, untested geochemical anomalies coincident with alteration zones (2).\n- Highly reactive host rocks (Helena Formation calcareous metasedimentary rocks and diabase intrusions); porphyry intrusions associated with large alteration footprints at Smart Creek and Sunrise (figures 1-4).\n\n**RESULTS OF 2025 FIELD CAMPAIGN**\n\nDomestic Metals published the analytical results for 310 surface samples from the 2025 Summer/Fall field campaign. Results highlight several exploration opportunities consisting of porphyry, skarn, CRD and structurally-controlled gold targets.\n\nThe program was designed to characterize known mineralized zones, refine drill target locations and identify new areas for follow-up exploration.\n\n**Highlight High-Grade Assay Results**\n\n- 102 g/t Au (Sample G019007)\n- 74.7 g/t Au, 13.8% Cu, 3810 g/t Ag (Sample G019235)\n- 30.4 g/t Au (Sample G019001)\n- 26.6 g/t Au (Sample G019353)\n- 23.1% Cu, 424 g/t Ag (Sample G019225)\n- 19.65% Cu, 458 g/t Ag (Sample G019031)\n- 19.05% Cu, 582 g/t Ag (Sample G019038)\n\nDetailed results can be found in the news release [dated January 8, 2026](https://domesticmetals.com/surface-sampling-at-smart-creek-project-yields-high-grade-mineralization-with-up-to-102-g-t-au-up-to-23-cu-and-up-to-3810-g-t-ag/).\n\n**Summary of findings – 2025 Field Campaign**\n\n- Domestic completed successful mapping, sampling and prospecting at the Smart Creek Project. The new data will be coupled with a geophysical (MT/IP) program in advance of drilling scheduled for Q1/2026.\n- Rock sample assays from outcrops, historic trenching, mines and workings demonstrate high-grade gold, copper, silver and zinc and confirms the project is prospective for porphyry copper deposits, carbonate replacement deposits (“CRD”), skarn and exotic copper deposits.\n- 39 samples (out of 310) exceed 0.5 g/t Au, 43 samples (out of 310) exceed 1 % Cu, 35 samples (out of 310) exceed 30 g/t Ag, 31 samples (out of 310) exceed 0.1% Zn.\n- All targets (Sunrise Mine, Smart Creek, Radio Tower, Exotic Cu) are significantly expanded based on the results of the 2025 exploration program at the Project.\n\n**SMART CREEK PROJECT GEOLOGY**\n\nThe Smart Creek project area is underlain by geology that is highly prospective for CRD style deposits:\n\n1. The Helena Formation silty limestones are superb reactive trap rocks.\n2. Heat and fluid sources are documented and the property is located along the northwest margin of the copper-productive Boulder Batholith which underpins the western Montana porphyry belt.\n3. Smart Creek has the prerequisite geological architecture for CRD and porphyry discovery as well as wide spread alteration footprints including marble, calc silicate (skarn) and manganese oxides.\n4. Massive to semi-massive sulfides with excellent metal tenor have been sampled and mapped on the property.\n\nThe CRD prospective Helena Formation at Smart Creek has the potential to yield high unit-value deposits which have an excellent pedigree in the western United States. An excellent example of this style of copper-gold mineralization is the Bisbee Camp’s Copper Queen CRD deposit located in the Warren Mining District, southeast Arizona, which has a historic production of 53 Mt @ 6% Cu (1,2). The Domestic Metals technical team has extensive experience with this style of mineralization and will systematically explore for the CRD deposit style at the Project using modern toolkits.\n\n**MINERALIZATION FRAMEWORK**\n\nThe Smart Creek project hosts significant mineralization corresponding to at least 3 related styles of copper and gold mineralization, including porphyry copper-gold (Smart Creek, Sunrise and Radio Tower), carbonate replacement deposits (Sunrise Mine and Radio Tower), structurally controlled epithermal gold (Sunrise Mine), and exotic or remobilized copper deposits formed by supergene processes (Smart Creek Exotic Copper Target). Copper-gold mineralization at Smart Creek is the result of magmatic-hydrothermal fluid flow driven and focused by Cretaceous intrusions and trapped by reactive Helena Formation carbonate-rich metasedimentary rocks."]
Leadership
J. Patricio Varas (Chairman, Professional Geoscientist and Mining Executive with over 38 years’ experience in mineral exploration, mine development and corporate management.), Gordon Neal (Director, President and CEO, Founding member of MAG Silver Corp. with extensive experience in corporate development and raising over $750M in the resource sector.), Hendrik van Alphen (Director, Extensive background in mining and resource companies, founder of multiple successful ventures including Wealth Minerals and World Copper Ltd.), David Reid (Director, Senior partner and Global Co-Chair of Mining with DLA Piper (Canada) LLP with over 30 years of experience in mining and securities law.), Jon Sherron (Director, Over 20 years of senior management experience with a focus on corporate governance and business strategy, currently Vice President of EDI Inc.)

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