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Copper Fox Announces Strategy to Advance Van Dyke Copper Project to PFS Stage
Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - December 3, 2025) - Copper Fox Metals Inc. (TSXV: CUU) ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Copper Fox Announces Strategy to Advance Van Dyke Copper Project to PFS StageCalgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - December 3, 2025) - Copper Fox Metals Inc. (TSXV: CUU) (OTCQX: CPFXF) (FSE:HPU) (\"Copper Fox\" or the \"Company\") through its wholly owned subsidiary Desert Fox Van Dyke Co., is pleased to provide an update on plans to advance its 100% owned Van Dyke in-situ copper recovery (ISCR) project (the \"Project\") located in the Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona. Elmer B. Stewart, President and CEO of Copper Fox, stated, \"Copper Fox is focused on restarting copper production from the historic Van Dyke mine in Arizona employing responsible mining technologies, practices and utilizing ISCR methodology, a mining method currently being implemented at Florence Copper. The 2020 Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) recognized Van Dyke as a near term, mid-size, environmentally friendly and sustainable copper project located in the prolific Miami-Inspiration mining district in Arizona. Copper Fox's goal at Van Dyke is to update the 2020 PEA incorporating results of studies completed since 2021 to provide a critically important assessment of the Project's status. The results of the PEA could optimize the timeline, activities and estimated cost of the Execution Plan prepared to advance the project to the prefeasibility study (PFS) stage. We look forward to delivering on this next milestone and are exploring available options for non-dilutive funding prior to initiating the PFS level activities.\"The PEA would incorporate among other items, the results of technical studies completed since 2021, update the capital, operating and sustaining costs, update pre-tax and post-tax economic models using consensus long term copper pricing and a project economic sensitivity analysis to copper price.Copper Designated Critical MineralThe recent designation of copper as a critical mineral by the US Geological Survey combined with the rapidly growing demand for copper to support the global energy transition, manufacturing, electrification, and AI expansion highlights the importance of new, environmentally sustainable development stage copper projects like Van Dyke. The Project has the potential to be a near term, mid-size copper project located in a Tier-1 jurisdiction, playing a meaningful role in meeting the growing...