Domestic Metals Provides Project Update for Ongoing Field Level Exploration at the Smart Creek Project
Domestic Metals Provides Project Update for Ongoing Field Level Exploration at
the Smart Creek Project
Vancouver BC, September 11, 2025
Domestic Metals Corp. (the “Company” or “ Domestic”) - (TSXV: DMCU; OTCQB: DMCUF; FSE:
03E) provides an exploration update for field level activities at the Smart Creek Project located in
western Montana (Figure 1). Fieldwork, including mapping, sampling and prospecting is
underway at Smart Creek , with the objective to identify lithological, structural, alteration and
geochemical vectors toward porphyry copper-gold and related c arbonate replacement style
(“CRD”) copper-gold-silver-zinc mineralization. High priority target areas crop out at the Smart
Creek, Sunrise and Radio Tower zones which are being advanced to the exploration drilling stage,
planned for Q4, 2025.
Patricio Varas, CEO of Domestic Metals Corp. stated: “Rigorous and systematic field evaluation
of the Smart Creek p orphyry, Sunrise Mine p orphyry/skarn and Radio Tower CRD and p orphyry
targets is progressing on time and on budget. The results will yield specific targets slated for
multiple phases of exploration drilling beginning in late 2025 or early 2026.”
Patricio Varas also commented “The three high- priority targets identified at the Smart Creek
project each have large footprints based on magnetic and IP g eophysics, alteration and
lithological mapping, in addition to historic rock and soil surface geochemistry. Each of the three
targets have stand- alone potential to host economic bulk tonnage copper -gold-silver
mineralization.”
Domestic’s 2025 Surface Exploration
Domestic Metals is mid -way through a 40 -day systemat ic mapping, sampling and prospecting
exploration program at the Smart Creek project, designed to identify structural, lithological,
alteration and geochemical vectors toward potentially mineralized magmatic -hydrothermal
centers at the Smart Creek, Sunrise and Radio Tower targets. Domestic Copper has recognized
the distal expressions of carbonate replacement copper-gold-silver mineralization and porphyry
copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization across the project area.
Ongoing mapping, sampling and prospect ing at Smart Creek will leverage novel exploration
techniques designed to vector toward CRD mineralization including carbon- oxygen isotope
sampling to map alteration fronts (limestones), ultraviolet light imaging of carbonate veins
(detects base metal anomalism); portable X RF leakage analysis and potassium feldspar stain -
based detection methods.
Figure 1. Location and economic geology of the Smart Creek Project, Granite County, Montana.
Smart Creek Porphyry Copper-Gold Target
The Smart Creek target represents a high -priority, drill ready porphyry target for Domestic
Metals. It consists of favourable (reactive) Helena Formation (Proterozoic Belt Supergroup)
calcareous metasedimentary rocks that are variably altered to marble and pyroxene skarn as well
as locally higher temperature mineral assemblages (garnet, biotite, potassium feldspar)
associated with porphyry copper-gold mineralization. The Smart Creek target is characterized by
mineralization exposed at surface including copper oxides (chrysocolla, malachite), sulphide
copper-molybdenum porphyry mineralization (including porphyry related veins), skarn related
copper mineralization and CRD associated copper-gold-silver mineralization. Previous drilling
demonstrates an increase in the density of porphyry style veins toward the northwest as well as
a relative increase in the abundance of higher temperature alteration (biotite-potassium feldspar
and locally garnet) where there is an IP chargeability feature measuring approximately 1,400m x
600m (Figure 1). Previous drilling at the Smart Creek Target returned 109.73 meter @ 0.75% Cu;
18.74 g/t Ag intercept (SMCR0022; see NR dated August 20, 2024).
Sunrise Mine Target
The Sunrise Mine has documented past production between 1800 -1900 of epithermal related
replacement style mineralization (mantos) including 12,500 Oz of gold and associated high grade
material from stopes ranging between 7.22-18.07 g/t gold, 2-4% copper and 0.105% tungsten on
the main adit level 1,2. While this mineralization is considered significant , Domestic Metals has
identified a gold mineralized, altered (quartz- sericite-pyrite) leached porphyry intrusion that
returned 4.22 g/t gold, and 72.1 g/t silver approximately 1 kilometer east of the Sunrise Mine
which suggests a drill accessible porphyry copper linkage to this mineralization. The Sunrise Mine
represents a high-priority drill target for Domestic Metals.
Radio Tower Target
Domestic Metals has recognized a large, 1,000m x 1,300 m marbleized, calcsilicate (garnet,
diopside, tremolite-actinolite) alteration expression in the Helena Formation that is coincident
with a copper -in-soil response and an IP (induced polarization) chargeability feature at Radio
Tower, approximately 2 kilometers south of the Sunrise Mine. Radio Tower may be part of the
same magmatic -hydrothermal center as Sunrise , however, given the size of the alteration
footprint and the copper endowment (soil anomalism – see NR Dated December 10, 2024), the
Radio Tower is considered a stand-alone target prospective for copper-gold-silver enriched CRD
mineralization and porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization.
About Domestic Metals Corp.
Domestic Metals Corp. is a mineral exploration company focused on the discovery of large-scale,
copper and gold deposits in exceptional, historical mining project areas in the Americas.
The Company aims to discover new economic mineral deposits in historical mining districts that
have seen exploration in geologically attractive mining jurisdictions, where economically
favorable grades have been indicated by historic drilling and outcrop sampling.
The Smart Creek Project is strategically located in the mining -friendly state of Montana,
containing widespread copper mineralization at surface and hosts 4 attractive porphyry copper,
epithermal gold, replacement and exotic copper exploration targets with excellent host rocks for
mineral deposition.
Domestic Metals Corp. is led by an experienced management team and an accomplished
technical team, with successful track records in mine discovery, mining development and
financing.
Qualified Person
All scientific and technical information in this news release has been prepared by, or approved
by Daniel MacNeil, MSc., P.Geo., Technical Advisor of the Company. Mr. MacNeil is a qualified
person for the purposes of National Instrument 43 -101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects. The QP has not verified the historical data but verification of these data will be done
through the company's planned exploration activities.
On behalf of Domestic Metals Corp.
Patricio Varas, Chairman and CEO
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Notes
1 https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/show-mrds.php?dep_id=10105541
2 $4-$10/ton gold values reported from the Sunrise Mine were converted to grams/tonne by dividing the value per
ton of rock by the gold price in 1900 (USD$ 19.96) to obtain a Troy ounces/short ton value which was subsequently
multiplied by a factor of 34.2857 obtain grams/tonne.
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