{"id":8267,"date":"2026-05-05T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=8267"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:28:52","slug":"copper-and-nickel-breaking-out-big-as-rare-earth-stocks-explode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/copper-and-nickel-breaking-out-big-as-rare-earth-stocks-explode\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper and Nickel Breaking Out Big as Rare Earth Stocks Explode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n  .nia-wrap {\n    font-family: 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif;\n    max-width: 680px;\n    margin: 0 auto;\n    color: #1a1a2e;\n    line-height: 1.7;\n  }\n\n  \/* \u2500\u2500 ALERT BANNER \u2500\u2500 *\/\n  .nia-alert {\n    background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0f3460 0%, #16213e 100%);\n    border-left: 5px solid #27ae60;\n    border-radius: 8px;\n    padding: 18px 22px;\n    margin-bottom: 28px;\n    display: flex;\n    align-items: center;\n    gap: 14px;\n  }\n  .nia-alert-icon {\n    font-size: 2rem;\n    line-height: 1;\n  }\n  .nia-alert-text {\n    color: #ecf0f1;\n    font-size: 1.05rem;\n    margin: 0;\n  }\n  .nia-alert-text .up {\n    color: #2ecc71;\n    font-weight: 700;\n  }\n\n  \/* \u2500\u2500 SECTION CARDS \u2500\u2500 *\/\n  .nia-card {\n    background: #ffffff;\n    border: 1px solid #e8ecf0;\n    border-radius: 10px;\n    padding: 22px 26px;\n    margin-bottom: 24px;\n    box-shadow: 0 2px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.06);\n  }\n\n  \/* \u2500\u2500 TICKER BADGE \u2500\u2500 *\/\n  .nia-ticker-row {\n    display: flex;\n    align-items: center;\n    flex-wrap: wrap;\n    gap: 10px;\n    margin-bottom: 14px;\n  }\n  .nia-ticker {\n    display: inline-block;\n    background: #0f3460;\n    color: #fff;\n    font-weight: 700;\n    font-size: 0.78rem;\n    letter-spacing: 0.08em;\n    padding: 4px 10px;\n    border-radius: 4px;\n  }\n  .nia-ticker.green  { background: #1a7a4a; 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Homeland Nickel<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <h2>\ud83d\uddf3\ufe0f Special Shareholder Meeting: This Thursday<\/h2>\n    <p>Noble Mineral Exploration (<strong>NOB<\/strong>) is holding a special shareholder meeting <strong>this Thursday<\/strong> to approve a proposed dividend of <strong>9 million Homeland Nickel (SHL) shares<\/strong> to be distributed to NOB shareholders later this month.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"nia-highlight green\">\n      \ud83d\udcb0 <strong>For every share of NOB you hold<\/strong>, you will receive approximately <strong>0.034 shares of SHL<\/strong>&#8230; at no additional cost. Record date estimated on or around <strong>May 27th<\/strong>.\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p>NOB will continue to own <strong>10 million+ SHL shares<\/strong> post-dividend.<\/p>\n\n    <hr class=\"nia-divider\">\n    <h2>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Homeland Nickel (SHL): America&#8217;s #1 Nickel Exploration Company<\/h2>\n    <p>SHL holds <strong>ten nickel laterite projects in Oregon<\/strong>. Key properties include:<\/p>\n\n    <h3>\u26cf\ufe0f Cleopatra Property (~335 miles south of Portland)<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"nia-stats\">\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">2,872 acres<span>Property Size<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">748 drill holes<span>Historical Drilling<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">39.47M tons @ 0.93% Ni<span>Historical Resource (0.70% cut-off)<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">733,151,400 lbs Ni<span>Contained Nickel<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3>\u26cf\ufe0f Red Flat Nickel Property<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"nia-stats\">\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">18.76M tons @ 0.84% Ni<span>Historical Resource<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">316,610,200 lbs Ni<span>Contained Nickel<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <h3>\u26cf\ufe0f Eight Dollar Mountain Property: Recent Surface Sampling<\/h3>\n    <div class=\"nia-stats\">\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">56 samples<span>Surface Samples<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">0.21% \u2013 2.21% Ni<span>Grade Range<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\">~0.67% Ni avg.<span>Average Grade<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p style=\"font-size:0.88rem;color:#555;\">Results compare favorably to typical surface laterite grades and confirm a well-mineralized system across the property.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550 COPPER \/ SUPER COPPER \u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"nia-card\">\n    <div class=\"nia-ticker-row\">\n      <span class=\"nia-ticker copper\">CSE: CUPR<\/span>\n      <span style=\"font-size:0.8rem;color:#888;\">Super Copper<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <h2>\ud83d\udd36 Copper Surges<\/h2>\n    <p>\n      <span class=\"nia-price\">$5.99378<span style=\"font-size:0.9rem;font-weight:500;color:#555;\">\/lb<\/span><\/span>\n      <span class=\"nia-price-change copper-change\">\u25b2 +2.18%<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"nia-highlight blue\">\n      \ud83e\uddf2 <strong>Major Discovery:<\/strong> Super Copper (CUPR) has identified geophysical evidence linking <strong>El Alto<\/strong> and <strong>Calcite Hill<\/strong> within a <strong>single coherent 3.5 km magnetic corridor.<\/strong>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p>The strongest magnetic zones and strongest chargeability zones <strong>overlap at depth<\/strong>&#8230; when two independent methods detect the same target, it substantially reduces the likelihood that either anomaly is caused by anything other than mineralization.<\/p>\n    <p>CUPR is finalizing drill targeting using an integrated 3D geophysical model and will announce its <strong>Phase 1 diamond drill program<\/strong> in a subsequent news release.<\/p>\n    <p style=\"font-size:0.88rem;color:#555;\">\ud83d\udccc CUPR&#8217;s #1 largest shareholder, <strong>Apeiron Investment Group<\/strong>, is backed by billionaires <strong>Christian Angermayer<\/strong> and <strong>Peter Thiel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550 TIGER GOLD \u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"nia-card\">\n    <div class=\"nia-ticker-row\">\n      <span class=\"nia-ticker gold\">TSXV: TIGR<\/span>\n      <span style=\"font-size:0.8rem;color:#888;\">Tiger Gold: Tesorito Project<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <h2>\ud83e\udd47 Strong Drill Result at Tesorito<\/h2>\n    <p>On February 24th, NIA highlighted how TIGR may have identified a new feeder zone at Tesorito. Today&#8217;s news takes that thesis to an entirely new level.<\/p>\n\n    <table class=\"nia-drill-table\">\n      <thead>\n        <tr>\n          <th>Drill Hole<\/th>\n          <th>Intercept (m)<\/th>\n          <th>True Width (m)<\/th>\n          <th>Grade (Au)<\/th>\n          <th>From (m)<\/th>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>TSDH-71 <em style=\"font-size:0.78rem;color:#888;\">(Feb.)<\/em><\/td>\n          <td>89.96 m<\/td>\n          <td>79 m<\/td>\n          <td>0.9 g\/t Au<\/td>\n          <td>426 m<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr class=\"highlight-row\">\n          <td>TSDH-80 \u2b50 <em style=\"font-size:0.78rem;\">(New!)<\/em><\/td>\n          <td><strong>305.55 m<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td><strong>252.6 m<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td><strong>0.5 g\/t Au<\/strong><\/td>\n          <td><strong>516 m<\/strong><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n\n    <div class=\"nia-highlight\">\n      \u26a0\ufe0f <strong>TSDH-80<\/strong> represents one of the <strong>thickest continuous gold intercepts ever drilled at Tesorito<\/strong>&#8230; extending mineralization below the 2025 Mineral Resource conceptual pit shell, <em>substantially deeper than TIGR&#8217;s geological model predicted.<\/em>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"nia-img-wrap\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tigrnews2.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger Gold TSDH-80 Drill Section\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <p>TIGR has additional assay results pending from drillholes at <strong>Tesorito<\/strong>, <strong>Dos Quebradas<\/strong>, and <strong>Ceibal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550 RARE EARTHS \u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"nia-card\">\n    <div class=\"nia-ticker-row\">\n      <span class=\"nia-ticker rare\">NASDAQ: CRML<\/span>\n      <span class=\"nia-ticker rare\">NASDAQ: USAR<\/span>\n      <span class=\"nia-ticker rare\">TSXV: SAGA<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <h2>\ud83d\udc8e Rare Earth Stocks Exploding Higher<\/h2>\n    <div class=\"nia-stats\">\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\" style=\"background:#f9f0ff;border-color:#c39bd3;color:#5b2c6f;\">Critical Metals (CRML)<span style=\"color:#8e44ad;\">\u25b2 +4.26% today<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"nia-stat\" style=\"background:#f9f0ff;border-color:#c39bd3;color:#5b2c6f;\">USA Rare Earth (USAR)<span style=\"color:#8e44ad;\">\u25b2 +6.78% today<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"nia-highlight purple\">\n      \ud83c\udf1f <strong>Saga Metals (SAGA)<\/strong> is poised to become the market&#8217;s <strong>#1 most talked-about Heavy Rare Earth Element play<\/strong> between now and year-end. Based on initial 2025 RC drilling at SAGA&#8217;s newly acquired <strong>Wolverine Heavy REE Project<\/strong>, it appears on trajectory to equal or surpass CRML&#8217;s Tanbreez&#8230; with <em>significantly higher grades<\/em> than USAR&#8217;s Round Top.\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"nia-img-wrap\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sagacrml.jpg\" alt=\"Saga Metals vs CRML Comparison\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- \u2550\u2550 DISCLAIMER \u2550\u2550 -->\n  <div class=\"nia-disclaimer\">\n    Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. NIA is receiving compensation from NOB of US$50,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract and previously received US$50,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract which has since expired. NIA&#8217;s President has purchased 20,000 shares of SHL and intends to buy more shares. NIA is receiving compensation from SHL of US$75,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract. NIA has received compensation from SAGA of US$100,000 cash for a twelve-month marketing contract. NIA has received US$50,000 cash from CUPR for a six-month marketing contract and previously received US$30,000 cash for a three-month marketing contract. NIA has received US$120,000 cash from TIGR for a twelve-month marketing contract. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcc8 Nickel is \u25b2 up 1.15% today to another new two-year high! 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