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North American Copper Project Review: Q4 2023

Mining companies regularly publish technical updates, new resource estimates and economic studies. At Costmine Intelligence, we gather these documents and make them quickly accessible for the mining industry to review on our platform. 

Here we have collected the majority of technical reports published for copper projects in the fourth quarter of 2023 (October to December). You can download and review these documents with one click and see what companies are doing at their properties. 

Copper Mountain Mine
Hudbany Minerals
(TSX: HBM)

Dec. 4, 2023

Santo Tomas Copper Project
Oroco Resource
(TSX-V: OCO)

 Dec. 1, 2023

Back Forty Project
Gold Resource 
(NYSE: GORO)

Oct. 26, 2023

Gabbs Property
P2 Gold
(TSX-V: PGLD)

Oct. 20, 2023

Eaglehead Project
Copper Fox Metals
(TSX-V: CUU)

Oct. 10, 2023

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