{"id":8564,"date":"2026-05-25T06:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:35:11","slug":"awcm-could-be-our-biggest-copper-discovery-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/awcm-could-be-our-biggest-copper-discovery-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"AWCM Could Be Our Biggest Copper Discovery Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6; color:#222; max-width:740px; margin:0 auto;\">\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">\nIn 2023, we originally made the copper explorer <strong>Gladiator Metals (TSXV: GLAD)<\/strong> our <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>#3 overall stock suggestion<\/strong><\/span> at <strong>$0.50 per share<\/strong> and we later changed it to <strong>Power Metallic Mines (TSXV: PNPN)<\/strong> at <strong>$0.225 per share<\/strong>. <strong>GLAD<\/strong> hit a <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>new all-time high<\/strong><\/span> on Friday of <strong>$2.08 per share<\/strong> for a <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>gain of 316%<\/strong><\/span> and <strong>PNPN<\/strong> is currently <strong>$1.51 per share<\/strong> for a <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>gain of 571.11%<\/strong><\/span>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">\n<strong>Ameriwest Critical Metals (CSE: AWCM)<\/strong> could be our <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>most important<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color:#d35400;\">copper<\/span> stock suggestion<\/strong> yet.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">\nWe already know that <strong>AWCM&#8217;s Bornite Pipe<\/strong> contains a <strong>historical <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">high-grade<\/span> <span style=\"color:#d35400;\">copper resource<\/span><\/strong> from the early 1990s that was almost <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>developed<\/strong><\/span> by <strong>Plexus Resources<\/strong>, which later merged to become <strong>Kinross Gold (KGC)<\/strong>. <strong>Kinross<\/strong> then sat on the property for nearly a decade until it became <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>forgotten about<\/strong><\/span>, with no work taking place since 1993.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">\n<strong>AWCM<\/strong> has <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">identified five additional<\/span> breccia pipe-style <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">exploration targets<\/span><\/strong> at its <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>100%-owned<\/strong><\/span> <strong>Bornite Property<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n<ul style=\"margin:0 0 14px 20px; padding-left:20px;\">\n\n\t<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\">\n\tThe <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">new<\/span> targets<\/strong> are located in the <strong>northeast corner<\/strong> of <strong>Ameriwest\u2019s <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">expanded<\/span> claim block<\/strong>, which now covers:\n\t\n\t\t<ul style=\"margin-top:10px; padding-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t<li style=\"margin-bottom:6px;\"><strong>87 unpatented mineral claims<\/strong><\/li>\n\t\t\t<li>Approximately <strong>1,740 acres<\/strong><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/li>\n\n\t<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\">\n\tThese new targets are believed to complement the company\u2019s main focus:\n\t\n\t\t<ul style=\"margin-top:10px; padding-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t<li>the known <strong>Bornite <span style=\"color:#d35400;\">copper<\/span>&#8211;<span style=\"color:#f1c40f;\">gold<\/span>&#8211;<span style=\"color:#4e5f70;\">silver<\/span> breccia pipe<\/strong><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/li>\n\n\t<li>\n\tManagement believes the <strong>Bornite Pipe<\/strong> may be part of a <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">larger<\/span> cluster of breccia pipes<\/strong>, which could <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>significantly increase<\/strong><\/span> the project&#8217;s long-term exploration potential.\n\t<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px; text-align:center;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bornitepipe.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:497px; height:auto;\" \/>\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 14px;\">\nThe earliest work on <strong>AWCM&#8217;s property<\/strong> was completed by the mineral subsidiary of <strong>Amoco Corporation<\/strong>, which was once one of the <strong><span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">largest<\/span> oil companies<\/strong> in the world and is now part of <strong>BP plc (BP)<\/strong>. <strong>Amoco&#8217;s mineral subsidiary<\/strong> later became <strong>Cyprus<\/strong>, which was then <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>acquired<\/strong><\/span> by <strong>Phelps Dodge<\/strong>, which itself was later <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>acquired<\/strong><\/span> by the <strong><span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">world&#8217;s<\/span> <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">largest<\/span> <span style=\"color:#d35400;\">copper producer<\/span><\/strong> <strong>Freeport-McMoRan (FCX)<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p style=\"margin:0;\">\n<em>\n<span style=\"font-size:8px; line-height:1.4; display:block; color:#666666;\">\nPast 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 received compensation from GLAD of US$100,000 cash for a twelve-month marketing contract which has since expired. NIA received compensation from PNPN of US$50,000 cash for a six-month marketing contract which has since expired. NIA&#8217;s President has purchased 240,000 shares of AWCM in a private placement and owns 240,000 AWCM warrants to buy more shares. NIA is receiving compensation from AWCM of US$100,000 cash for a twelve-month marketing contract. This message is meant for informational and educational purposes only and does not provide investment advice.\n<\/span>\n<\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, we originally made the copper explorer Gladiator Metals (TSXV: GLAD) our #3 overall stock suggestion at $0.50 per share and we later changed it to Power Metallic Mines (TSXV: PNPN) at $0.225 per share. GLAD hit a new all-time high on Friday of $2.08 per share for a gain of 316% and PNPN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[301,304,48,103,303,302,9,58,34,17],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-awcm","tag-bp","tag-copper","tag-crude-oil","tag-fcx","tag-glad","tag-gold","tag-kgc","tag-pnpn","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8568,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}