The Falcon Platform

Our Three-Platform Model

Falcon Copper is not a single-asset company. It is a single integrated operation across three platforms — each addressing a distinct structural gap in the U.S. copper supply chain, and each reinforcing the others.

The model is the answer to a specific diagnosis: America lacks domestic copper smelting, lacks adequate upstream exploration investment, and lacks a commercial vehicle to advance allied-nation supply. One company. Three platforms. The full supply chain.

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The Falcon Platform
Three platforms. One supply chain.
01
Falcon Copper Mining
Exploration & Extraction
8 projects · 9 properties · MT · AK · NV · AZ
02
Falcon Copper Works
Domestic Smelting & Refining
400,000+ tpa · Arizona · In Development
03
Falcon Copper International
Allied Supply
African Copperbelt · DRC · Zambia
The Rationale

The four forces require
an integrated answer.

No single platform addresses all four structural forces shaping global copper. A mining company without smelting leaves its concentrate exposed to China. A smelter without upstream supply is a capacity asset with no feedstock. An allied-supply vehicle without domestic infrastructure has no home for its output.

The three-platform model was designed specifically because the structural problem is integrated. The answer has to be integrated too.

Force 01
Processing Chokepoint
Works closes the smelting gap
Force 02
Demand Surge
Mining builds long-life U.S. supply
Force 03
Supply Cliff
Mining + International builds pipeline
Force 04
Policy Reset
All three platforms align with framework
01
Upstream · Exploration

Falcon Copper Mining

Eight copper-dominant U.S. exploration projects — with joint ventures alongside Rio Tinto Kennecott and Freeport-McMoRan in Nevada, and Falcon-operated properties in Montana, Alaska, and Arizona.

The upstream platform serves two purposes: it builds the future mine supply that feeds Falcon Copper Works when operational, and it creates a portfolio of copper assets that establishes Falcon as a credible upstream operator independent of the smelter.

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Projects
8 projects · 9 properties
Schell Creek comprises the Muncy and Cabin properties
JV Partners
Rio Tinto Kennecott
Plus Freeport-McMoRan on Butte Valley (NV)
FAST-41 Listings
Blue Copper (MT) · Schell Creek (NV)
Federal permitting transparency dashboard
Exploration Lead
Rich Leveille
Fmr. SVP Exploration, Freeport-McMoRan
Primary Target
Copper-dominant, multi-critical-minerals
Cu · W · Mo · Au · Zn · Ga · Ge targeted
02
Midstream · Processing

Falcon Copper Works

A primary copper smelter and refinery on federal land in Arizona — the first new-build primary U.S. smelter in four decades. Taking domestic mine concentrate through to finished copper cathode on American soil.

Works is the strategic centerpiece of the platform model. It captures the value that current U.S. mine operators are forced to export — and it eliminates the Chinese processing dependency that is the most acute supply-chain vulnerability in American copper.

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Capacity
400,000+ tpa
Primary copper cathode output
Site
Federal Land, Arizona
Rail, power, and water infrastructure access
EPC Partner
JGC Corporation
Engineering, procurement & construction
Technology
Metso Flash Smelting
Proven primary copper smelting technology
Policy Basis
U.S.–Japan Framework
$550B bilateral investment framework, Sept. 2025
03
Global · Allied Supply

Falcon Copper International

Identifies and advances tier-one copper projects in the DRC and Zambia — operating within U.S. bilateral agreements to build the allied critical-minerals supply chain the energy transition and defense industrial base require.

International does not operate in opposition to domestic supply. It builds the allied-nation copper pipeline that U.S. policy has explicitly called for — and that only a company with the Tenke Fungurume and Mutanda pedigree can credibly advance.

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Focus
Tier-one copper geographies
African Copperbelt — DRC and Zambia
Policy Framework
U.S. DRC & Zambia Bilateral Agreements
Critical-minerals supply framework
Pedigree
Tenke Fungurume · Glencore Mutanda
Direct operating credits, not background research
Platform Lead
Rick Gittleman
Fmr. SVP Freeport Africa; Tenke Fungurume senior management
The Integration

How the three platforms
reinforce each other.

Mining
Falcon Copper Mining's U.S. properties provide the domestic concentrate feedstock that Falcon Copper Works is built to process. When Works comes online, it creates a fully domestic mine-to-cathode supply chain.
Works
Refined copper cathode produced by Falcon Copper Works goes directly to U.S. manufacturers — eliminating the Chinese processing intermediary and making domestic copper supply genuinely domestic.
International
Falcon Copper International builds the allied-nation concentrate supply that can feed Works beyond what domestic U.S. mines produce — extending the facility's utilization and strategic value.
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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.