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Max Porterfield, President and CEO of Visionary Copper and Gold Mines Inc. (TSX-V: VCG) (OTCQB: VCGMF), discusses the mineral explorer’s focus on advancing the Point Leamington Project in central Newfoundland, which hosts a sizable gold, copper, zinc, and silver-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit. Operating in central Newfoundland, the company aims to grow its existing resource base and make new discoveries across an expanded land package, positioning itself to capitalize on an accelerating structural copper shortage driven by electric vehicles, power grids, and AI data centres.
Drill-ready targets set Visionary apart
Unlike peers chasing untested greenfield ground, Visionary is advancing five priority regional targets that were identified and advanced more than two decades ago by a joint venture including Billiton, now BHP, together with Rubicon Minerals.
These targets sit in the same host stratigraphy as the Point Leamington deposit, and that earlier work concluded the Lewis Lake area is permissive of hosting a massive sulphide deposit. According to Porterfield, “We’re the first to come back to this ground with boots on the ground and a modern program.”
This first systematic, modern exploration of drill-ready targets gives the company a lower-risk path toward potential discovery.
Copper demand and market opportunity for investors
With a structural copper shortage reshaping the resource landscape, Visionary is strategically positioned to capture emerging demand. Copper wires the modern economy, and demand is accelerating from electric vehicles, renewable energy, power grids, and the data centres behind the AI boom, while supply struggles to keep pace as new discoveries grow rare and ore grades decline.
“By some estimates, the world will need on the order of 700 million tonnes of new copper in the coming decades — roughly as much copper as humanity has mined in its entire history," Porterfield says. By focusing on discovery in a proven district, the company offers investors early-stage exposure to that growing demand.
Recent milestones and exploration growth plans
Recent milestones include prospecting permits covering all 21 mineral licences across roughly 30,000 hectares, or 300 square kilometres, with field crews mobilized and systematic soil and rock sampling already underway over five regional target areas. Porterfield says, “The world needs more copper. I’m personally invested in Visionary being part of that answer.”
This work is advancing concurrently with site preparation for planned Phase Two diamond drilling at the main deposit. Looking ahead, the company expects geochemical results to refine targets ahead of future drill testing.
Investment outlook for Visionary Copper and Gold
As Visionary expands beyond the Point Leamington deposit and across the district, it stands at the intersection of rising copper demand and resource security. With permitting secured and sampling underway on drill-ready targets, the company is well positioned to deliver disciplined exploration progress in central Newfoundland.
Transcript
Max Porterfield: I want to provide an update on Visionary’s Point Leamington Project in central Newfoundland — which already hosts a sizable gold, copper, zinc and silver-rich VMS deposit — because we’ve just taken a major step forward across our expanded land package.
But first, a word on why I continue to be a significant shareholder of Visionary, recently adding to my long-term position. The world is facing a structural copper shortage. Copper is the modern metal that wires the modern economy — and demand is accelerating on every front at once. Electric vehicles use several times more copper than a conventional car. The build-out of power grids, renewable energy, and the data centres behind the AI boom all run on copper.
At the same time, supply isn’t keeping pace; major new discoveries have become rare, existing mines are aging, ore grades are declining, and it can take a decade or more to bring a new deposit into production. When you put rising demand against constrained supply, the math is striking. By some estimates, the world will need on the order of 700 million tonnes of new copper in the coming decades — roughly as much copper as humanity has mined in its entire history — just to keep up.
That copper has to come from somewhere, and it starts with discoveries. Now to what’s happening on the ground. We’ve received our prospecting permits from the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Energy and Mines. And this is meaningful — the permit covers all 21 mineral licences across our expanded land package of roughly 30,000 hectares — that’s 300 square kilometres — including the Lewis Lake area immediately east of the deposit.
With permitting moving quickly on a regional basis, we wasted no time. Our crews are on the ground and our regional sampling program is already underway. We’ve commenced systematic soil and rock sampling over five priority regional target areas. We’re running survey lines 100 metres apart, collecting samples every 25 metres — a disciplined, grid-based approach designed to define and refine geochemical anomalies and vector in on targets ahead of future drill testing.
Here’s why these five targets matter — they were originally identified and advanced more than two decades ago by a joint venture that included Billiton (now BHP), together with Rubicon Minerals. They sit in the same host stratigraphy as our Point Leamington deposit. And that earlier work concluded the Lewis Lake area is an environment permissive of hosting a massive sulphide deposit similar to Point Leamington itself.
What’s important is that when Billiton and Rubicon walked away, they left behind a series of compelling, drill-ready targets. This is the first systematic, modern exploration of these targets since. We’re the first to come back to this ground with boots on the ground and a modern program. And we’re doing this concurrently with site preparation for our planned (Phase Two) diamond drilling at the main deposit — so, we’re advancing on multiple fronts at once.
The world needs more copper. I’m personally invested in Visionary being part of that answer — and I continue to add to my position because I believe in where this is headed. Point Leamington is expanding — beyond the deposit, and across the district.
About Visionary Copper and Gold Mines Inc.
Visionary Copper and Gold Mines Inc. is advancing a robust portfolio of copper, gold and critical metal deposits in prime Canadian mining districts. Their team has a proven track record in discovering and developing several significant base and precious metal deposits across North America.
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The scientific and technical information contained within this article has been reviewed and approved by Peter M. Dimmell, P. Geo, a director of the company, who is a Qualified Person, as defined under the terms in National Instrument 43-101.
