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American West Metals has expanded its North American footprint by commencing trading on the OTCQB Venture Exchange under the ticker AWMLF. The move gives US investors direct access to the company behind Utah's West Desert critical minerals project which holds the nation's largest indium resource and has growing gallium potential, positioning it at the heart of America's minerals supply chain revival.

American West Metals has struck more sizzling copper grades at its Storm project in Canada, including 12.1m at 5.6% copper with a hit up to 27.3%. The company says the new results point to a resource upgrade at Cyclone and strengthen its PFS, positioning Storm as northern Canada's next major copper development.

In a sign that US critical minerals have reached fever pitch, American West Metals' share price exploded just minutes after announcing a $7m capital raise to fund work on its massive indium resource at the company's West Desert project in Utah. The company's share price ran from 4.9c at last close to touch 9.8c at one stage.

American West Metals has confirmed multiple large-scale copper targets at its Storm project in Nunavut, Canada. A standout is a colossal 16km-long anomaly at just 200m depth - interpreted within the same host rocks that carry Storm's existing copper sulphides. The results catapult Storm into rare company and point to a pipeline of discovery-ready prospects.

American West is completing key pre-feasibility study activities at its Storm copper project, northern Canada's only near-term copper development. Permitting and environmental studies are progressing at the project, which is supported by Canada's critical minerals strategy. High-grade visible copper mineralisation suggests Storm has resource expansion potential, while its strategic importance positions it for rapid development.

American West Metals has hit thick, high-grade copper at its Storm copper project in Nunavut, Canada, with a reverse circulation drilling program confirming near-surface mineralised zones and deep diamond drilling hitting 57m of visible copper sulphides at its Cirrus target. The results point to an extensive copper system, which might support resource upgrades and expansion at the company's Corona, Thunder, Lightning Ridge, and The Gap prospects.

American West Metals has intercepted visual copper sulphides and uncovered some 8km of outcropping copper at its giant Storm Copper project in Nunavut, Canada. The outcrops were identified across its Tornado area, adrift from the main resource, with the promising shows underscoring the vast potential of the district-scale 2200-square-kilometre address to continue to deliver high-grade copper discoveries.

American West Metals has cemented an off-take partner for its flagship Storm copper project in Nunavut, Canada, finalising key milestones in a transformative partnership with UK-based trader Ocean Partners. American West says its binding off-take agreement and funding commitments will de-risk the project's path to development as Canada's next copper producing player.

American West Metals has revealed a sizeable new copper target at its Storm project in Nunavut, Canada, with historical drill tests intersecting visual copper sulphides at its newly titled Midway prospect. The company says a 2018-hole intersected 58m of visual sulphides, primarily chalcocite, with intervals containing up to 2.5 per cent estimated sulphide content.

American West Metals has unveiled a wave of new copper targets at its Storm project in Nunavut, Canada. The latest slew of greenfield copper prospects underscores what the company says is the “vast greenfield potential” of its 110km-long copper belt at Storm. New prospects, including Seabreeze and Hailstorm, include lab busting copper rock sampling grades of more than 50 per cent copper, the upper limit for the lab testing technique.

American West Metals has delivered more thick, juicy Canadian copper hits at its flagship Storm project in Nunavut, with high-grade assays continuing to flow from both its Chinook and Cyclone deposits. The company says its latest drilling has further bolstered the Chinook deposit's potential as an open-pit starter mine, with high-grade copper mineralisation starting from surface at the site.

A $7 million American West Metals fundraising campaign, which has attracted new investors and the company's directors, has helped build a war chest to boost exploration efforts and upgrade the resource estimate of its Storm copper project in Canada. Under the placement, 77.8 million new shares have been issued by the company at a price of 9c per share.

American West Metals has revealed one of the best-ever drill hits at its Storm project in Canada after a hole put in on the south side of the North Graben fault intercepted 22.9m at 8.5 per cent copper. The interval includes semi-massive sulphide zones with individual assays up to 27 per cent copper and importantly, lies outside the Cyclone target's mineral resource.

American West Metals has sealed a US$12.5 million (AU$18.8 million) royalty funding deal from TMRF Canada – a subsidiary of Australian-based Taurus Funds Management – to boost the development of its Storm copper project in the Nunavut territory in northern Canada. The company expects to pocket the first US$1 million in the next few days and it will be followed shortly by an additional US$4 million.

American West Metals has discovered thick high-grade copper assaying up to 3.7 per cent from deep diamond drilling at the Cyclone deposit within its Storm project in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, indicating a big mineralised system. The discovery hole was collared about 110m south of the North Graben Fault that cuts off the south side of the Cyclone target.

American West Metals has jagged a 13.5 per cent copper hit in resource upgrade drilling at the Cyclone deposit within its Storm project in Canada – and it has also identified a new target 1.4km to the south. The company identified the new copper target while drilling the first hole south of the southern graben fault to test a geophysical anomaly, 450m south-west of its Thunder prospect.

American West Metals says it has defined more solid evidence of a possible giant copper deposit at its Storm project in Canada's Nunavut territory, with two deep diamond holes boring through a respective 21.3m and 99.2m of visible copper. The drilling of seven deep diamond holes to date have all intersected the company's prospective target horizon at depth and all have revealed copper mineralisation.

American West Metals has paved the way for a resource upgrade and extension for its Cyclone deposit in Canada, with notable new drill hits including 19.8m at 1.2 per cent copper and 3g/t silver from just 12.2m. That intercept includes 4.6m going 3 per cent copper and 7g/t silver from 21.3m and a 3m slice running 3.2 per cent copper and 8.5g/t silver from 59.4m.

American West Metals' recent metallurgical testwork on copper-mineralised sample material from its Cyclone and Chinook deposits at its Storm project in Canada has successfully generated what it says is commercial-grade direct shipping ore. The testwork employed a two-circuit ore-sorting and inline pressure jig stream, which was shown to produce a range of direct shipping copper concentrate grades with good yields.

American West Metals has extended the high-grade Thunder copper zone at its Storm project in Canada's Nunavut province to more than 300m after completing 66 reverse-circulation and diamond drillholes. The company has also received encouraging visible indications of mineralisation in its first 22 drillholes, with nine step-out holes exhibiting thick copper mineralisation to confirm the 300m strike extent of the target.

American West Metals says it likes what it sees in visual sulphide hits at the company's Storm copper play in Canada after unveiling results of 16 holes drilled at its Cyclone deposit and Lightning Ridge prospect. Management completed 4453m of reverse-circulation drilling as it aims to upgrade and extend the Cyclone and Chinook deposits and define resources at its Lightning Ridge and Thunder prospects.

American West Metals has nailed 20m of copper at 2.3 per cent from 38m including 8m at 5.3 per cent in a drill campaign designed to test an electromagnetic (EM) anomaly at the “Gap” within its Storm project in Canada. The 8m intercept also jagged another 3m interval at 7 per cent copper from 41m, confirming the strong correlation between copper mineralisation and EM anomalism.

American West Metals has secured $18.8 million in non-dilutive funding to accelerate its Storm copper project in Canada after signing a royalty package deal with Australian-based Taurus Mining Royalty Fund. The funding package is designed to underpin the exploration and drilling activities that are already underway at the potentially district-scale project, along with fast-tracking project development amid a surging global thirst for copper production.

American West Metals has delivered three holes intersecting between 30.5m and 47.2m of visible copper sulphides after reverse-circulation drilling at its Storm copper project in Canada's Nunavut territory. The second hole in the program revealed a visible copper sulphide run of 36.5m dominated by chalcocite – an important copper ore mineral – between 79.3m and 115.8m downhole, just north of the company's Cyclone deposit.

The identification of multiple new high-grade copper targets at American West Metals' Cyclone prospect in Canada has the company contemplating its potential for resource growth at its wider Storm project. The company's recent moving loop electromagnetic survey at the Somerset Island site in Nunavut has unveiled what it says are “outstanding” new copper targets that include likely resource extensions in most directions.

American West Metals has vowed to uncover new zones of copper mineralisation at its Storm project on Canada's Somerset Island after kicking off this year's exploration and resource definition drilling program. The initial RC campaign will also further explore the resource potential at the company's Thunder prospect where last year's drilling jagged a 48.6m copper intercept going 3 per cent copper.

American West Metals is looking to expand its already solid mineral resource at its Storm copper project in Canada with a high-powered electromagnetic survey set to deliver priority drill targets at the site. Earlier this year, the company unveiled a maiden resource for its operation on Somerset Island in the Canadian province of Nunavut of 17.5 million tonnes at 1.2 per cent copper and 3.4g/t silver after just one season of resource drilling.

American West Metals is set to launch a new drill attack and smash into an exploration and resource expansion program at its Storm copper play on Somerset Island, within the Canadian territory of Nunavut. After recently boosting its cash holdings by $10 million, it expects the drill program to begin next month, with about 22,000m of reverse-circulation and diamond drilling planned.

American West Metals is cashed up and ready to tear into an exploration and resource expansion program at its Storm copper play in Canada after pumping up its bank account with $10 million in fundraising. The company says the raise was oversubscribed, with several of its directors intending to stump up their cash and participate in the placement.

American West Metals has unveiled a maiden mineral resource for its Storm project in Canada of 17.5 million tonnes at 1.2 per cent copper and 3.4g/t silver after just one season of resource drilling. The JORC-compliant estimate holds 205,000 tonnes of copper and 1.9 million ounces of silver at the operation on Somerset Island in the Canadian province of Nunavut.

American West Metals has appointed current non-executive director and 40-year mining veteran Dan Lougher as non-executive chairman of the company. Lougher has a track record of developing and operating large-scale base and precious metals assets in Australia, North America, Africa and Europe and will oversee American West as it looks to develop its potentially massive Storm copper project in Northern Canada.

American West Metals has pumped up the mineral resource at its West Desert project in Utah with nearly 24 million ounces of indium and 119,000 gold ounces and says it has the only indium deposit in the United States. The updated JORC resource adds to the existing 1.3 million tonnes of zinc, 49,000 tonnes of copper and 10 million ounces of silver at the project.

American West Metals has confirmed outstanding grades of 38.2 per cent copper and 30.87 per cent zinc from geochemical sampling at the Tempest prospect that forms part of its greater Storm project in Canada. The results came from surface gossan rocks at the underexplored site, which have been mapped for more than 4km and are about 40km south of copper targets drilled earlier this year.

American West Metals continues to record impressive hits at its Storm project in the Canadian province of Nunavut, with a peak result showing a 1.5m intercept at a whopping 8.3 per cent copper from 54.9m. The hit was found within a 24.4m section grading 1.1 per cent copper from 48.8m and also contained 6.1m going 2.8 per cent copper from 54.9m.

American West Metals has delivered more shallow and high-grade copper results from its Storm project in the Canadian province of Nunavut, with peak assays including a 1.5m hit at 7.6 per cent copper from 77.7m. The impressive hit came from a drillhole sunk at the company's Lightning Ridge prospect, which also recorded a 15.2m segment grading 2.3 per cent copper from 30.5m.

American West Metals has hit high-grade, sediment-hosted copper in three diamond drill holes sunk at its Storm project in Canada's Nunavut province, with the intercepts below the site's near-surface copper deposits. Highlights show a 76m hit at 2 per cent copper from 32.4m, which included a headline grade of 49.6 per cent copper in a 0.5m slice.

American West Metals looks set to acquire an 80 per cent share of the Storm project in Canada's Nunavut province from Aston Bay Holdings after completing its exploration spend requirement at the operation. As part of an option agreement in 2021, American West was granted the chance to grab the commanding slice of the project once exploration expenditure of C$10 million (AU$11.475 million) was completed.

American West Metals has continued a winning streak at its Storm project in Canada, striking an 18m intercept of visual copper sulphides in its latest diamond drillhole. The hit extends copper mineralisation 2km from its recent Thunder zone discovery hole that yielded more than 76m of visible copper sulphide mineralisation, hinting that the company has tapped into a major belt-scale sediment-hosted copper system.

American West Metals has continued to ride a copper wave at its Storm project in Canada after revealing more thick and high-grade intervals near surface, with a headline 1.5m hit going an impressive 8 per cent. The company says its “outstanding results” point to the ongoing consistency and scale of its copper mineralisation … with the promise of more to come.

American West Metals believes it is closing in on a massive underground copper deposit within the tenement boundaries of its Canadian-based Storm copper project. Detected with a ground gravity survey, management says its new evidence adds to already-known exposed copper at surface on-site at Storm and complements recent drill intercepts that found thick copper intersections at depth.