Domestic Metals starts 9,000m Smart Creek drill program – ICYMI

Domestic Metals Corp ( TSX-V:DMCU, OTCQB:DMCUF, FRA:03E0) earlier this week provided an update on drilling at its Smart Creek project in Montana, with CEO Gordon Neal outlining a fully funded 9,000-metre program targeting copper and precious metals across two areas of focus.

Neal told Proactive that drilling had started at Smart Creek, where Rio Tinto previously completed 26 holes between 2017 and 2022.

The company is really interesting, mostly because of the project you have. Why don’t you give everyone a refresher and tell me a bit about the project, where it is and what you’re looking at? Then we’ll talk about the work that’s going on.

It’s Domestic Metals Corp (TSX-V:DMCU, OTCQB:DMCUF) . It trades on the TSX Venture under the symbol DMCU and, in the United States, on the OTC under DMCUF.

We are in Montana. I’m actually leaving for Montana in a couple of days. The drills have just started. It is a Rio Tinto project, and the name of the project is Smart Creek. Rio Tinto drilled 26 holes on the project between 2017 and 2022.

Its best hole was 109 metres of 0.75% copper, which included 84 metres of 0.97% copper, so almost 1%. There’s a lot of copper oxide on site in the Smart Creek area.

There are two areas of focus on the project. Smart Creek is on the eastern side, and the Sunrise Mine is on the west. We’re looking at both sides of the project because they have significant copper endowments showing. So that’s where we are in Montana. You’ve got a fully fu...