American Gold & Copper AGCI

American Gold & Copper AGCI Gold Funded Copper Growth

American Gold & Copper (OTC:AGCI) is advancing a historically explored Bolivian gold-copper-silver system with a staged plan that begins with shallow gold and progresses into copper.

American Gold & Copper AGCI

Price $0.0399 August 25, 2026

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Market Cap $28.57M

American Gold & Copper

“Gold First…Copper Below”

Strong Speculative Buy 12-18 month Price Target Range: $0.08-$0.13 per share (Harbinger Research Report)

What If the Gold on Top Could Help Unlock the Copper Below?

American Gold & Copper Is Not Starting With a Blank Map.

It Is Starting With a Historically Explored Mineral System and a Geology-Driven Plan.

Most junior mining companies begin with a theory.

They acquire a property, study geological maps, raise money, and start drilling to answer the most basic question:

Is anything valuable actually down there?

American Gold & Copper Corp. (OTC: AGCI) may be starting much further ahead.

Its core Ascension de Guarayos project in eastern Bolivia has already benefited from more than $27 million in historical exploration and development work. Previous operators identified three copper-gold-silver VMS lenses, completed extensive drilling and sampling, assembled more than 90 geological reports, and constructed meaningful infrastructure.

But the most interesting part of the story is not simply what previous operators found.

It is how the metals are stacked underground.

Near-surface gold sits above a copper-enriched zone. Beneath both lies the deeper primary sulfide system.

That natural layering gives AGCI a potential development sequence:

Gold first. Copper second. Deeper exploration third.

If the plan works as intended, the upper gold-bearing material could help generate the cash needed to advance into the underlying copper.

AGCI is not merely exploring for valuable metals.

It is attempting to turn the geology itself into a staged business plan.

The World Is Electrifying Faster Than New Copper Mines Can Be Built

Copper is already essential to electrical wiring, construction, transportation, machinery, and manufacturing.

Now artificial-intelligence data centers, power-grid expansion, electric vehicles, renewable-energy connections, and electrification are placing even greater demands on the world’s copper supply.

But copper has a problem.

You can build a data center relatively quickly.

You cannot create a major new copper mine nearly as fast.

New mines can take many years to discover, confirm, permit, finance, construct, and bring into production. That makes historically explored projects increasingly important, especially when much of the expensive preliminary work may already have been completed.

Every copper wire begins with a mine.

But every new mine begins with years of work before the first pound of copper can be produced.

This is why AGCI’s starting point matters.

The company is not beginning with untouched acreage and a hopeful geological theory.

It is advancing a known mineralized system with decades of technical work behind it.

The $27 Million Head Start

Metal in the Ground Matters. So Does the Work Already Completed Above It.

AGCI controls four contiguous Bolivian concessions covering approximately 42,175 hectares, or more than 420 square kilometers.

The property extends across roughly 35 kilometers of prospective greenstone terrain.

Historical operators invested more than $27 million across the project. That work produced:

• More than 90 geological reports
• More than 21,000 samples and assays
• Approximately 2,560 meters of auger drilling
• Approximately 3,353 meters of reverse-circulation drilling
• Approximately 8,231 meters of diamond-core drilling
• More than 12.8 kilometers of trenching
• Three identified VMS lenses known as A-1, A-2, and A-3

The site also has infrastructure that many early-stage exploration companies must spend years building:

• Approximately 18 kilometers of all-weather access road after the paved-road approach
• A nearby 2,000-meter airstrip
• A 120-bunk camp
• Water, kitchen, and electrical-generation capacity
• Core and sample-storage facilities
• A separate gravity wash plant at the C-Zone

This infrastructure does not eliminate the need for financing, modern drilling, construction, and successful execution.

But it does mean AGCI may be building on a foundation that already took decades and millions of dollars to create.

AGCI need not prove that mineralization occurred on the property.

It needs to confirm:

1. the historical work to modern standards

2. determine how much larger the system may be

3. demonstrate that it can be developed economically.

The Bolivian Layer Cake

One Mineral System. THREE Potential Stages of Development.

Imagine the deposit as a geological layer cake.

Each layer contains a different opportunity.

Layer One: Shallow Gold

The upper approximately 40 meters consists of weathered, oxidized material enriched in gold.

Management’s initial plan is designed to begin with this shallower material using comparatively straightforward washing and gravity-recovery methods, followed by additional gold recovery as development progresses.

This matters because gold could generate revenue sooner than a full-scale copper development.

Company materials project 7,210 ounces of gold during the first eight to nine months of Phase 1, based on an assumed 30% recovery rate.

That figure is a management projection. It is not an established production rate, and actual recovery, timing, costs, and output still must be demonstrated.

Layer Two: Copper-Enriched Supergene Zone

Beneath the gold-bearing oxide cap is an approximately 45-meter-thick copper-enriched supergene zone.

If the initial gold phase performs as planned, cash generated above could help finance development of the copper below.

Instead of raising all the capital required for each stage upfront, AGCI is attempting to have the project help finance its own progression.

Layer Three: Primary Sulfides

Beneath the gold and copper-enriched layers lies the original VMS primary sulfide system.

This is the least-explored part of the known deposit and could represent important long-term optionality.

Developing the upper zones would do more than remove material. It could physically expose the deeper system, allowing larger samples, modern metallurgical testing, more focused drilling, and better mine planning.

The sequence is simple enough for any investor to understand:

Recover the gold. Advance into copper. Learn what lies deeper.

WHY STARTING WITH GOLD COULD CHANGE THE FINANCING STORY

Building a mine requires substantial capital.

The technical report estimates approximately $9.5 million in startup capital for the initial six-month Bolivian development program.

That funding has not yet been secured, and AGCI will require significant additional capital before its principal development plans can proceed.

But the proposed sequence may reduce the amount of outside capital needed at each subsequent stage.

If shallow gold production begins and performs substantially as management projects, the company could potentially use part of that cash to:

• Continue development through the oxide zone
• Advance toward the copper-enriched supergene layer
• Complete modern confirmation drilling and QA/QC work
• Conduct metallurgical testing
• Improve access to the deeper primary sulfides

This does not make the project self-funding today.

It creates a potential path toward increasing self-funding as development progresses.

That distinction is critical.

Most junior miners must repeatedly raise capital while searching for evidence of a deposit.

Key Point:

AGCI intends to raise the initial capital needed to begin developing a historically identified system, then use the upper gold layer to help unlock what lies below.

The HISTORICAL NUMBERS ARE A STARTING POINT, NOT A MODERN RESOURCE

Historical A-Zone analysis estimated approximately:

• 172,400 ounces of gold at an average grade of 0.92 grams per tonne
• 267,000,000 pounds of copper at an average grade of 2.09%

Those numbers are meaningful because they show that substantial mineralization was historically identified.

But investors must understand what they do not represent.

AGCI does have a current NI 43- 101; however, its mineral reserve for the Bolivian project is not currently NI 43-101-compliant mineral resource as it was based on historical results before NI43-101 rules existed.

The historical samples were largely collected during the 1990s and do not meet all modern QA/QC requirements.

New drilling, re-assaying, and modern verification are required.

The investment thesis should therefore not be:

“AGCI has already proven the final size and economics of this deposit.”

The more accurate thesis is:

“AGCI is beginning with extensive historical evidence of a mineralized system and now has the opportunity to confirm, expand, and develop it.”

That is the difference between promotional exaggeration and a credible speculative opportunity.

Three Known Lenses Could Be THE BEGINNING OF A MUCH LARGER SYSTEM

The principal A-Zone contains three identified VMS lenses: A-1, A-2, and A-3.

The best-studied lens, A-1, has been described as approximately 450 meters along strike and 350 meters down dip. It remains open along strike and at depth, meaning that historical drilling has not established its final boundaries.

VMS deposits are important because they commonly occur in clusters rather than as isolated bodies.

The technical materials note that VMS systems worldwide can often contain more than 20 lenses.

AGCI has identified three across a much larger 35-kilometer belt, with at least 11 additional anomalies still untested.

That does not mean the company will discover 20 economic lenses.

It means the known lenses establish that the mineralizing process occurred, while the surrounding land gives AGCI room to search for more.

The company clearly controls a large property.

Drilling will determine whether it controls a comparably large defined resource.

The C-Zone: A Small Test With Big Strategic Meaning

AGCI is not currently an established commercial producer.

However, its Bolivian operating group has practical experience recovering gold on the property.

According to the technical materials, a gravity wash plant has operated at the C-Zone on a test-mining basis since February 2014. Company materials report recovered gold refined to approximately 94.5% to 97.4% purity.

The value of the C-Zone is not that it proves the economics of the much larger A-Zone development.

It does not.

Its value is that the team has already:

• Permitted a mining-related operation in Bolivia
• Constructed and operated gravity-recovery equipment
• Handled material from the property
• Recovered and refined gold

That experience is directly relevant to AGCI’s plan to begin the A-Zone with shallow gold and relatively simple recovery methods.

The C-Zone is not proof of commercial scale. It is PROOF that the company is NOT learning everything for the first time.

ONE COMPANY. SEVERAL POTENTIAL VALUE CREATION EVENTS

AGCI’s story is NOT dependent on a single drill or a distant milestone.

If management executes successfully, the company could potentially create value through a series of increasingly important events:

1. Drill and assay a 40 hole drill program to define and increase the company’s bankable reserves.
2. Secure the capital required for the initial Bolivian program.
3. Construct and commission the planned Phase 1 gold facilities.
4. Begin gold recovery and establish actual operating costs and recoveries.
5. Complete modern drilling and QA/QC verification of the historical work.
6. Expand and better define the A-1, A-2, and A-3 lenses.
7. Advance into the copper-enriched supergene zone.
8. Test and define the deeper primary sulfides.
9. Explore additional targets across the broader 35-kilometer belt.
10. Complete and advance proposed U.S. acquisitions if due diligence supports them.

The attraction is not a single promise.

It is the number of ways successful execution could progressively increase the project’s definition, scale, and productive potential.

BOLIVIA IS THE FOUNDATION. THE UNITED STATES COULD ADD BLUE-SKY UPSIDE

AGCI’s Bolivian Project is the ANCHOR ASSET.

The company is also pursuing proposed acquisitions that could diversify its geographical and commodity exposure.

Proposed Rimrock Copper-Gold Project: Nevada

AGCI has signed a memorandum of understanding for the proposed acquisition of the Rimrock copper-gold project in Lander County, Nevada.

Rimrock consists of 77 unpatented federal lode claims covering approximately 1,540 acres in the Battle Mountain mining district. Historical geological, geochemical, and geophysical work supports further exploration, and a proposed first-phase drilling program has an estimated budget of approximately $1.3 million.

Rimrock does not currently have a defined mineral resource, and the proposed acquisition has not been completed. Its present value lies in exploration potential and the possibility of adding a U.S. copper-gold opportunity in an established mining district.

Proposed Shamrock Nickel-Copper Project: Oregon

AGCI has also entered into a non-binding letter of intent involving the proposed acquisition of the Shamrock nickel-copper project in Jackson County, Oregon.

The property consists of 40 unpatented claims covering approximately 758 acres. The transaction remains subject to due diligence, title verification, definitive agreements, approvals, and other closing conditions.

Because technical disclosure remains limited, Shamrock should be viewed as optionality in the proposed acquisition, not as a defined component of AGCI’s current asset value.

The portfolio can therefore be understood simply:

Bolivia provides the historically explored foundation.

Nevada and Oregon could add North American exploration upside if the transactions close and future work supports their geological potential.

A TEAM BUILT AROUND THE WORK THAT COMES NEXT

AGCI’s next phase requires more than geologists.

It requires project history, Bolivian operating experience, metallurgy, permitting, government and community relationships, mine planning, and access to capital.

The company’s team has been assembled around those needs:

• Dr. Michael Biste brings more than 35 years of mining and exploration experience and approximately two decades of history with the Guarayos concessions and their technical record.
• Bong Gi Kim contributes mine operating, construction, and metallurgical experience, including more than a decade designing and building mining operations in Bolivia.
• David Shriqui and Dr. Johnny Nogales contribute environmental, permitting, legal, and governmental experience in Bolivia.
• Dr. Richard C. “Criss” Capps brings more than 50 years of mineral exploration experience, project-specific work in the C-Zone and A-Zone, and substantial Nevada expertise relevant to Rimrock.
• Brent Nelson, Executive Chairman, brings more than 30 years of experience in mining, technology, venture financing, and public markets.

The project has historical work behind it and an operating plan in front of it.

Capital and execution are the bridge between the two.

WHAT IS DOCUMENTED, WHAT MUST BE CONFIRMED, AND WHAT COULD COME NEXT

Documented Today

• Four contiguous Bolivian concessions covering approximately 42,175 hectares
• More than $27 million in historical exploration and development
• Three historically identified VMS lenses
• At least 11 anomalies that look like they could be additional lenses
• Extensive historical drilling, sampling, assays, reports, and trenching
• Existing roads, camp, storage, power, water, and gravity-recovery infrastructure
• Test-mining experience at the C-Zone since 2014
• A geology-driven staged development plan

Historically Indicated but Required Modern Confirmation

• Approximately 172,400 ounces of historical gold mineralization
• Approximately 267,000,000 pounds of historical copper mineralization
• Historical grades, recoveries, sampling, and resource calculations
• The dimensions and continuity of the known lenses

Future Milestones That Still Depend on Execution

• Securing $3.0 million to execute the company’s 40 hole drill program and do a fresh 43-101 with bankable reserves.
• Secure another $9.5 million for the initial Bolivian startup program
• Constructing and commissioning Phase 1 facilities
• Achieving projected gold recovery and operating economics
• Confirming historical work through modern drilling and QA/QC
• Developing the copper-enriched zone
• Defining the deeper primary sulfides
• Discovering additional VMS lenses
• Completing and advancing the proposed U.S. acquisitions

This framework is the clearest way to understand AGCI.

The company has more than an idea, but less than a proven commercial mine.

That gap between historical evidence and modern proof is both the opportunity and the risk.

WHY INVESTORS MAY BE MISSING THE BIGGER PICTURE

At first glance, AGCI may appear to be another small exploration company with an overseas property.

That description misses the real story.

This is a company attempting to advance:

• A known mineralized system rather than a blank-map theory
• A project backed by more than $27 million in historical work
• A deposit whose natural layering may support staged development
• Shallow gold that could potentially help finance deeper copper
• Three identified VMS lenses across a much larger underexplored belt
• A team with direct project, Bolivian, technical, and capital-markets experience
• Proposed U.S. exploration opportunities that could add jurisdictional diversification

The simple version of the investment thesis is this:

AGCI may be able to use the gold it can reach first to help unlock the copper the world increasingly needs next.

That is a much bigger story than another junior miner drilling another speculative hole.

It is a historically explored mineral system attempting to move through a logical progression:

Gold first. Copper below. A much larger system still to be proven.

AGCI August 25, 2026 Price $0.0399

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