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- Western Metallica Resources Corp. is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company focused on the identification, acquisition, exploration, and advancement of precious and base metal mineral properties, with primary interests in copper, gold, and molybdenum assets. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the company conducts its mineral exploration activities across prospective mineral belts in the Iberian Peninsula of Spain and the porphyry belts of Chile. The company manages a portfolio of early to advanced-stage mineral assets and exploration programs, including base and precious metal exploration projects, such as the Nueva Samaria Copper-Gold Project in Asturias, Northern Spain, encompassing multiple mining claims prospective for skarn and intrusion-related copper and gold mineralization; South American porphyry copper assets, including the Luz Maria Copper Porphyry Project located within the Coastal Cordillera of Chile, targeting large-scale copper-molybdenum systems; regional gold and polymetallic exploration assets in Europe, including historical gold targets and regional concessions across the Iberian Peninsula; and technical mineral exploration services, comprising core diamond drilling campaigns, ground and airborne geophysical surveys, geochemical soil and stream sediment sampling, structural geological mapping, metallurgical testing, and maiden mineral resource estimation. In recent developments, Western Metallica Resources Corp. has executed key strategic initiatives to enhance its copper portfolio in response to growing global demand for critical and energy transition metals, highlighted by the acquisition and optioning of high-potential copper-gold exploration rights in Chile to complement its European footprint. The company has also completed non-brokered private placement equity financings to advance exploration and drill-testing programs, refined high-priority geophysical anomalies across its primary Iberian and South American targets, and reinforced its executive leadership and technical exploration team to accelerate asset evaluation, regulatory compliance, and community stakeholder engagement.