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Kutcho Copper (TSX-V: KC)(OTC: KCCFF) CEO Vince Sorace on Highest Priority Near Resource Drill Target for 2026 Exploration Program
Gerardo Del Real: This is Gerardo Del Real with Resource Stock Digest. Joining me today is the president and CEO of Kutcho Copper (TSX-V: KC)(OTC: KCCFF), Mr. Vince Sorace.
Vince, it's great to have you back on. Exciting update this morning. How are you?
Vince Sorace: Doing great, and yeah, it's been a while. Happy to be back on.
Gerardo Del Real: Well, look, I know that we had a couple of years in the copper and base metal space that were, let's be kind and say, less than exciting. And then about a year or so ago, things really started turning and now we have what looks like a bull market in the copper space for the foreseeable future. I am more than delighted to see you outline your highest priority near resource drill target for 2026.
Can you speak to the details of today's news release? Because I've long been a proponent of drilling some of these targets to expand the known resource, and of course to find new deposit types, being that this is a VMS-type system. So this exploration update is really welcomed on my end of things and I'm sure shareholders feel the same.
Vince Sorace: Yeah. I guess over the course of the last month, we've outlined the three targets that we're going to be drilling this summer. And our previous exploration work, or call it target delineation over the past year or two, we really focused on the district-scale potential of our claims. And I think most people know that historically, VMS deposits, when you find some, there's typically more and they do form these district-scale-type plays. And so I think we generated over 10 regional targets, and this summer we're going after three of the drill-ready highest priority targets, all near resource targets, but would all be new discoveries.
And earlier, we outlined The Hamburger target, The Gap target, and today, Esso West. And Esso West is one that we are exceptionally excited about for a number of reasons. One, there was historic drilling around our Esso deposit. Now, Esso is the smallest lens that we have in the mine plan, but it's the highest grade. And that Esso lens is equivalent to about half the value of our company here.
So historically, guys were chasing that to see if there was more, but with all the work that we've done, they missed the target area that we've identified with drill holes. There were one or two drill holes that did clip it that did return ore grade mineralization that, again, this is all good, that we were able to hone in and narrow that target range from historic work to current work.
So it's exploration, so you never know, but we are excited about the quality of this target and the potential of this target because if we do tap into this, call it, an extension of or this Esso West target, and it does grade like Esso, it's a game changer for the company, and to say that this anomaly is about three times the size of the Esso deposit. So lots of opportunity that could bring big reward should we tap into this one.
Gerardo Del Real: What comes next, I guess, is the question? You kind of already answered it, but can you give me a timeline on when we can expect you to start testing this really, really exciting part of this large system?
Vince Sorace: We're going to be ... At this point, it looks like we should be able to commence drilling at the end of June. We will be putting out some press release updates as we get closer to that timeline, but right now we're targeting end of June, the drills will be turning. So that's what we're looking at there. But again, there'll be updates coming on that.
And I think what's important here to touch on is the new strategic outlook for the company. Your audience has also seen us make significant changes to the team, and each one of those new board members adds, I'd say, a very significant and explicit skillset to the team. I would say I don't think we're done yet in building out this team on a number of levels, and there's a very specific and strategic mission that we're taking Kutcho on now.
And that is, one, continue to push hard on exploration as we've discussed. We want to grow the value and the size of this asset organically through exploration. And if we do, I think it opens up a new audience of, let's call it, investors and excitement to the story. And number two, with this team in place, we are also going to look to grow corporately and scale corporately. We are now going to go out again with, I would say, maybe a superior team to others that are sitting on decent assets and seeing what we can do as far as whether it be strategic investments or strategic acquisitions to bring scale to the company corporately. So that is our new mission and we're going to be aggressive on all fronts.
Gerardo Del Real: Well, you have the right backdrop. I think it's going to be, despite the volatility, a really, really good year in the commodity space in 2026, specifically for copper. So love the direction, love the focus. I know there's been whispers of potential M&A, and I know you've been getting a lot of calls given the disconnect between the valuation of the feasibility stage project as it stands now. Take exploration upside and put that to the side. The project now, compared to the market cap, there's a lot of runway between those two.
Are you still open to those conversations or are you set in the direction that you have right now?
Vince Sorace: Let's say that M&A conversations in the past were more orientated to people coming at us, people wanting to acquire us in that obvious recognition to the quality of asset that we have. The new strategy is we're going after other people, so we're going from, call it, the prey to the hunters, and that is a testament to, again, the team that's being put together, the team that will continue to grow. So that's the big difference in where we're at today.
Gerardo Del Real: Sounds like an exciting rest of the year. Looking forward to seeing you scale this out methodically. Vince, looking forward to having you back on. Great work. Thank you.
Vince Sorace: Thanks, Gerardo.
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