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- Cascadia Minerals Ltd Cascadia Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian junior mining company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of mineral properties primarily for copper and gold deposits in the Yukon and British Columbia. The company holds a portfolio of exploration-stage projects including its flagship Catch Property in central Yukon, which spans 119 square kilometers and hosts a copper-gold porphyry discovery with inaugural drill intercepts such as 116.60 meters of 0.31% copper and 0.30 g/t gold, alongside extensive high-grade surface mineralization up to 3.88% copper, 1,065 g/t gold, and 267 g/t silver across a 5-kilometer trend; the Carmacks Copper-Gold Project, acquired through the 2025 merger with Granite Creek Copper Ltd. and featuring a road-accessible Measured and Indicated resource of 651 million pounds copper, 302 thousand ounces gold, and 3.23 g/t silver (1.07% copper equivalent) in 36.3 million tonnes; and additional discovery-stage properties such as Macks (71 square kilometers with copper-molybdenum soil anomalies and skarn mineralization up to 1.20% copper), Milner (43 square kilometers with copper soil anomalies), Rosy (61 square kilometers with epithermal gold-silver veins up to 35.92 g/t gold), and Idaho Creek (14 square kilometers with epithermal silver-gold-lead-zinc veins and intrusion-related gold potential). Incorporated in 2023 and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cascadia Minerals Ltd. operates within the traditional territories of multiple First Nations including Little Salmon Carmacks, Selkirk, and others, targeting the Stikine Terrane's prospective volcanic-plutonic arc complexes analogous to major deposits like Red Chris and KSM. Recent developments include the completion of its acquisition of Granite Creek Copper Ltd. on August 13, 2025, via a share exchange issuing 53 million shares and integrating the Carmacks project with concurrent financing raising approximately C$3 million; receipt of a 10-year exploration permit and commencement of a 4,000-meter diamond drill program at Carmacks in September 2025 yielding initial results of 83.52 meters at 0.89% copper and 0.26 g/t gold from three holes with eight more pending; announcement of 2025 exploration plans in March featuring up to 1,100 meters of drilling at Catch's Amp and Volt zones targeting high-grade epithermal gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold, alongside prospecting at other properties; appointment of a new Chairman and Vice President of Exploration; and planning for a minimum 15,000-meter drill program in 2026 to expand Carmacks resources along the 20-kilometer Minto Copper Belt.